EP3629562A1 - Data transmitting method and system - Google Patents

Data transmitting method and system Download PDF

Info

Publication number
EP3629562A1
EP3629562A1 EP19200426.5A EP19200426A EP3629562A1 EP 3629562 A1 EP3629562 A1 EP 3629562A1 EP 19200426 A EP19200426 A EP 19200426A EP 3629562 A1 EP3629562 A1 EP 3629562A1
Authority
EP
European Patent Office
Prior art keywords
bluetooth
earphone
bluetooth earphone
target
audio data
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Granted
Application number
EP19200426.5A
Other languages
German (de)
French (fr)
Other versions
EP3629562B1 (en
Inventor
Jinhua Gong
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Original Assignee
Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd filed Critical Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Publication of EP3629562A1 publication Critical patent/EP3629562A1/en
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of EP3629562B1 publication Critical patent/EP3629562B1/en
Active legal-status Critical Current
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical

Links

Images

Classifications

    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04MTELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/60Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers including speech amplifiers
    • H04M1/6033Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers including speech amplifiers for providing handsfree use or a loudspeaker mode in telephone sets
    • H04M1/6041Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use
    • H04M1/6058Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use involving the use of a headset accessory device connected to the portable telephone
    • H04M1/6066Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use involving the use of a headset accessory device connected to the portable telephone including a wireless connection
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04RLOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R1/00Details of transducers, loudspeakers or microphones
    • H04R1/10Earpieces; Attachments therefor ; Earphones; Monophonic headphones
    • H04R1/1041Mechanical or electronic switches, or control elements
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04LTRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L12/00Data switching networks
    • H04L12/28Data switching networks characterised by path configuration, e.g. LAN [Local Area Networks] or WAN [Wide Area Networks]
    • H04L12/42Loop networks
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04LTRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L45/00Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks
    • H04L45/12Shortest path evaluation
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04LTRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L45/00Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks
    • H04L45/12Shortest path evaluation
    • H04L45/126Shortest path evaluation minimising geographical or physical path length
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04RLOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R1/00Details of transducers, loudspeakers or microphones
    • H04R1/10Earpieces; Attachments therefor ; Earphones; Monophonic headphones
    • H04R1/1016Earpieces of the intra-aural type
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04WWIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W4/00Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
    • H04W4/80Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04WWIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W76/00Connection management
    • H04W76/10Connection setup
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04LTRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L12/00Data switching networks
    • H04L12/28Data switching networks characterised by path configuration, e.g. LAN [Local Area Networks] or WAN [Wide Area Networks]
    • H04L12/46Interconnection of networks
    • H04L12/4604LAN interconnection over a backbone network, e.g. Internet, Frame Relay
    • H04L12/462LAN interconnection over a bridge based backbone
    • H04L12/4625Single bridge functionality, e.g. connection of two networks over a single bridge
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04MTELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M2250/00Details of telephonic subscriber devices
    • H04M2250/02Details of telephonic subscriber devices including a Bluetooth interface
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04RLOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R2420/00Details of connection covered by H04R, not provided for in its groups
    • H04R2420/07Applications of wireless loudspeakers or wireless microphones

Definitions

  • the present disclosure relates to a field of bluetooth device, and particularly to a data transmitting method and a system.
  • the technology of bluetooth earphone is improved and widely used.
  • the bluetooth earphone connects to the mobile terminal through bluetooth, and can receive the audio data transmitted by the mobile terminal for audio playback.
  • the data transmission between the earphone and the mobile terminal no longer depends on the wired connection, which makes the earphone more convenient to use.
  • the data transmission between the bluetooth earphone and the mobile terminal is single, which cannot meet the requirements of the users.
  • the present disclosure provides a data transmitting method and a system to improve the above problems.
  • the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmitting method, the data transmitting method is applied to a target bluetooth earphone.
  • the target bluetooth earphone is applied to a data transmitting system.
  • the data transmitting system includes a mobile terminal and a plurality of earphones, the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop, in which each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the target bluetooth earphone is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones.
  • the method includes the following operations.
  • the target bluetooth earphone receives audio data.
  • the target bluetooth earphone determines a target device, wherein the target device is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone in the connection loop and on the shorter of the two transmission paths, and the target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones or the mobile terminal.
  • the target bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the target device.
  • the target bluetooth earphone includes a voice acquisition unit.
  • the operation of the target bluetooth earphone receiving audio data includes the target bluetooth earphone acquiring sound signals through the voice acquisition unit and converting the sound signals into first audio data, and the target bluetooth earphone receiving second audio data from one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones which is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone.
  • the operation of the target bluetooth earphone transmitting the audio data to the target device includes the target bluetooth earphone mixing the first audio data and the second audio data to form mixed audio data, and transmitting the mixed audio data to the target device.
  • the target bluetooth earphone determining a target device includes determining one of the two devices as the target device, wherein the second audio data is not transmitted from the target device.
  • the operation of the target bluetooth earphone determining a target device includes determining the mobile terminal as the target device when the target bluetooth earphone is connected with the mobile terminal.
  • the method further includes calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the two transmission paths respectively; determining one of the two transmission paths with the smaller number of bluetooth earphones as the shorter transmission path.
  • the two transmission paths include a first path and a second path.
  • Two parameters are stored in the target bluetooth earphone.
  • the two parameters include a first parameter and a second parameter.
  • the first parameter is used to record the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path
  • the second parameter is used to record the number of bluetooth earphones on the second path.
  • the operation of calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the two transmission paths respectively includes calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path according to the first parameter and calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the second path according to the second parameter.
  • the first parameter is initialized to zero.
  • the operation of calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path according to the first parameter includes the target bluetooth earphone sending the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to the next bluetooth earphone on the first path, when the target bluetooth earphone is connected between the mobile terminal and one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, and the target bluetooth earphone is the first bluetooth earphone on the first path; the target bluetooth earphone receiving the first parameter from a previous bluetooth earphone on the first path, when the target bluetooth earphone is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, the target bluetooth earphone updating the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to a new first parameter, wherein the new first parameter equal to the first parameter received from the previous bluetooth earphone plus 1, and the target bluetooth earphone determining the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone as the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path.
  • the second parameter is initialized to zero.
  • the operation of calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the second path according to the second parameter includes the target bluetooth earphone sending the second parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to the next bluetooth earphone on the second path, when the target bluetooth earphone is connected between the mobile terminal and one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, and the target bluetooth earphone is the first bluetooth earphone on the second path; the target bluetooth earphone receiving the second parameter from a previous bluetooth earphone on the second path, when the target bluetooth earphone is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, the target bluetooth earphone updating the second parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to a new second parameter, wherein the new second parameter equal to the second parameter received from the previous bluetooth earphone plus 1, and the target bluetooth earphone determining the second parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone as the number of bluetooth earphones on second first path.
  • the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are sequentially connected in head-to-tail manner, and the mobile terminal is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones.
  • the plurality of bluetooth earphones include a main earphone and a plurality of slave earphones.
  • the mobile terminal connects with the main earphone via bluetooth, the main earphone and the plurality of slave earphones are sequentially connected in head-to-tail manner, and the main earphone is connected between two slave earphones of the plurality of slave earphones.
  • the operation of the target bluetooth earphone determining a target device includes determining the mobile terminal as the target device when the target bluetooth earphone is the main earphone.
  • the operation of the target bluetooth earphone determining a target device includes determining the main earphone as the target device when the target bluetooth earphone is a slave earphone and connected with the main earphone.
  • the method further includes determining whether the audio data comprises a first label or a second label, wherein the first label is used to instruct the bluetooth earphone to send the audio data to the mobile terminal, the second label is used to indicate that the audio data is transmitted from the mobile terminal to the plurality of bluetooth earphones; performing the operation of the target bluetooth earphone transmitting the audio data to the target device when the audio data comprises the first label; determining whether the target device is the bluetooth earphone or the mobile terminal, when the audio data comprises the second label; performing the operation of the target bluetooth earphone transmitting the audio data to the target device when the target device is the bluetooth earphone, ending the transmission of the audio data when the target device is the mobile terminal.
  • the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmitting method, the data transmitting method is applied to a data transmitting system.
  • the data transmitting system includes a mobile terminal and a plurality of bluetooth earphones, the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop.
  • Each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the plurality of bluetooth earphones include a first bluetooth earphone and a second bluetooth earphone.
  • the method includes the following operations.
  • the first bluetooth earphone receives audio data.
  • the first bluetooth earphone determining a target device, wherein the target device connects with the first bluetooth earphone via bluetooth in the connection loop and the target device is on the shorter of the two transmission paths.
  • the first bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the target device.
  • the target device is the second bluetooth earphone
  • the second bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to a next target device, until the audio data is transmitted to the mobile terminal, wherein the next target device connects with the second bluetooth earphone via bluetooth on the shorter transmission path.
  • the data transmitting system further includes another mobile terminal been connected with the mobile terminal through network
  • the method further includes the mobile terminal transmitting the audio data received from the first bluetooth earphone to the another mobile terminal.
  • the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmitting system, wherein the data transmitting system includes a mobile terminal and a plurality of bluetooth earphones, the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop, each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • Each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones is configured to perform the data transmitting method.
  • the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones form a connection loop, where each bluetooth earphone corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the target bluetooth earphone in the plurality of bluetooth earphones receives the audio data, determines a target device, wherein the target device is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone and on the shorter of the two transmission paths, and transmits the audio data to the target device.
  • the bluetooth headset can select the shorter path from the two transmission paths, so that the audio data can be transmitted to the mobile terminal as quickly as possible.
  • the audio play devices include car music players, speakers and earphone and so on.
  • the earphones include wired earphones or wireless earphones.
  • the earphone is wired earphone
  • the wired earphone and the mobile terminal are connected by the physical line, and the mobile terminal transmits the audio to the wired earphone through the physical line, so that the wired earphone can play the audio.
  • the wireless earphone In order to liberate the use of the earphone from the wired situation, make the connection between the earphone and the mobile terminal not depend on the physical line and increasing the convenience of the use of the earphone, the wireless earphone comes into being.
  • the wireless earphone establishes a communication link in advance according to the wireless communication protocol supported by the mobile terminal, and then the mobile terminal transmits audio to the wireless earphone through the communication link, so that the wireless earphone can play audio.
  • the wireless communication protocol can include WLAN protocol, bluetooth protocol, ZigBee protocol, and the like.
  • the disclosure describes wireless earphones connected via bluetooth protocol as an example.
  • an earphone which can establish a bluetooth connection with other devices such as electronic devices through a bluetooth protocol, a private protocol, or other command, and perform data transmission is defined as a bluetooth earphone, such as a TWS (True Wireless Stereo) earphone, a TWS Plus earphone, and so on.
  • a bluetooth earphone such as a TWS (True Wireless Stereo) earphone, a TWS Plus earphone, and so on.
  • the bluetooth earphone can also be connected to other bluetooth earphones via bluetooth.
  • the mobile terminal can be connected with a bluetooth earphone or connected with a plurality of bluetooth earphones.
  • Each bluetooth earphone can also be connected with one of the other bluetooth earphones or connected with a plurality of other bluetooth earphones.
  • the plurality of bluetooth earphones may be two or more bluetooth earphones.
  • the mobile terminal and a plurality of bluetooth earphones can form a data transmitting system for data transmission.
  • the mobile terminal can send data to the bluetooth earphones connected with the mobile terminal via bluetooth, and each bluetooth earphone can also send data to each bluetooth earphone connected.
  • the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop, in which each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the bluetooth earphone can transmit the audio data to the mobile terminal through the two transmission paths.
  • Each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones in the data transmitting system is configured to receive audio data; determine a target device, wherein the target device is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone in the connection loop and on the shorter of the two transmission paths, and the target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones or the mobile terminal; and transmit the audio data to the target device until the audio data is transmitted to the mobile terminal.
  • the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are sequentially connected in head-to-tail manner, and the mobile terminal is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones.
  • the mobile terminal 400 is connected to the bluetooth earphone A, and the bluetooth earphone A is connected to the bluetooth earphone B via bluetooth.
  • the bluetooth earphone B is connected with the bluetooth earphone A, and is also connected with the bluetooth earphone C.
  • the bluetooth earphones connect in sequence until bluetooth earphone D is connected with a bluetooth earphone, and the bluetooth earphone D is connected with the mobile terminal 400.
  • the bluetooth earphone A is simultaneously connected to one other bluetooth earphone and the mobile terminal
  • the bluetooth earphone D is simultaneously connected to one other bluetooth earphone and the mobile terminal.
  • the number of bluetooth earphones between the bluetooth earphone A and the bluetooth earphone D is not limited. It can be one or more, or can be zero.
  • each bluetooth earphone of the plurality of earphones has two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal, which are the transmission paths shown by direction 1 and direction 2 in FIG. 1 .
  • the two transmission paths of each bluetooth earphone correspond to two adjacent devices, and the two adjacent devices are on the two transmission paths respectively.
  • the two devices adjacent to one bluetooth earphone of the plurality of earphones may be two adjacent bluetooth earphones, or a bluetooth earphone and a mobile terminal.
  • the transmission path in direction 1 is the path that the bluetooth earphone A transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the transmission path shown in direction 2 is the path that bluetooth earphone A transmits the audio data to bluetooth earphone B.
  • the bluetooth earphone B transmits the audio data to the bluetooth earphone C
  • the bluetooth earphone C transmits the audio data to the next bluetooth earphone until the audio data transmitted to the bluetooth earphone D in direction 2 as shown in FIG. 1 .
  • the bluetooth earphone D then transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the mobile terminal adjacent to the bluetooth earphone A is on the transmission path of the direction 1
  • the bluetooth earphone B adjacent to the bluetooth earphone A is on the transmission path of the direction 2.
  • the transmission path in direction 1 is the path that bluetooth earphone B transmits the audio data to the bluetooth earphone A, and the bluetooth earphone A transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the transmission path shown in direction 2 is the path that bluetooth earphone B transmits the audio data to bluetooth earphone C, the bluetooth earphone C transmits the audio data to the next bluetooth earphone until the audio data is sequentially transmitted to the bluetooth earphone D in the direction 2 as shown in FIG. 1 .
  • the bluetooth earphone D then transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the bluetooth earphone A adjacent to the bluetooth earphone B is on the transmission path of the direction 1
  • the bluetooth earphone C adjacent to the bluetooth earphone B is on the transmission path of the direction 2.
  • the plurality of bluetooth earphones include a main earphone and a plurality of slave earphones in the data transmitting system.
  • the mobile terminal connects with the main earphone via bluetooth
  • the main earphone and the plurality of slave earphones are sequentially connected in head-to-tail manner
  • the main earphone is connected between two slave earphones of the plurality of slave earphones.
  • the data transmitting system further includes a main earphone on the basis of the plurality of slave earphones.
  • a bluetooth earphone as the main earphone is also included, and the plurality of bluetooth earphones of the foregoing embodiments are used as the plurality of slave earphones.
  • the bluetooth earphone a serves as the main earphone, and the other bluetooth earphones serve as the plurality of slave earphones.
  • the mobile terminal 400 is connected with the bluetooth earphone a via bluetooth.
  • the main earphone a is connected with the slave earphone b, and the earphone b is connected with the slave earphone c.
  • the slave earphone c is connected with the slave earphone b and also connected with the earphone d .
  • the earphones are connected sequentially like this until the slave earphone e is connected with a slave earphone, the slave earphone e is then connected with the main earphone a.
  • the main earphone a is simultaneously connected to two slave earphones of the plurality of slave earphones and the mobile terminal.
  • Each slave earphone is simultaneously connected with two bluetooth earphones, for example, slave earphone b is connected with the main earphone a and the slave earphone c, and slave earphone c is connected with the slave earphone b and the slave earphone d.
  • the number of the plurality of slave earphones is not limited, and can be two or more.
  • the main earphone may have only one transmission path for transmitting the audio data to the mobile terminal, that is, the main earphone directly transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the main earphone may also have more than one transmission path for transmitting the audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the main earphone transmits the audio data to an adjacent slave earphone, and the adjacent slave earphone sequentially transmits the audio data to other slave earphones until the audio data is transmitted to the main earphone and then transmitted to the mobile terminal by the main earphone.
  • the main earphones may be adjacent to one of the plurality of slave earphones or the mobile terminal.
  • each of the slave earphones has two transmission paths for transmitting the audio data to the mobile terminal, the two transmission paths are shown by direction 1 and direction 2 in FIG. 2 .
  • the two transmission paths of each bluetooth earphone correspond to two adjacent devices, and the two adjacent devices are on the two transmission paths respectively.
  • the two devices adjacent to one slave bluetooth earphone of the plurality of slave earphones are two bluetooth earphones, which may be two slave earphones, or one main earphone and one slave earphone.
  • the transmission path shown in direction 1 is to transmit the audio data from the slave earphone b to the main earphone a , and then the audio data is transmitted from the main earphone a to the mobile terminal.
  • the transmission path shown in direction 2 is to transmit the audio data from the slave earphone b to the slave earphone c , and the audio data is transmitted from the earphone c to the slave earphone d.
  • the slave earphone d transmits the audio data to the next slave earphone until the audio data transmitted to the slave earphone e in direction 2 as shown in FIG. 2 .
  • the audio data is transmitted from the slave earphone e to the main earphone a , and the main earphone a transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the main earphone a adjacent to the slave earphone b is on the transmission path of direction 1
  • the adjacent slave earphone c is on the transmission path of direction 2.
  • the audio data is transmitted from the slave earphone c to the slave earphone b.
  • the slave earphone b transmits the audio data to the main earphone a , then the audio data is transmitted from the main earphone a to the mobile terminal.
  • the audio data is transmitted from the slave earphone c to the slave earphone d.
  • the slave earphone d transmits the audio data to the next slave earphone, until the audio data is sequentially transmitted to the slave earphone e, the slave earphone e transmits the audio data to the main earphone a , then the audio data is transmitted from the main earphone a to the mobile terminal.
  • the adjacent slave earphone b is on the transmission path of direction 1
  • the adjacent slave earphone d is on the transmission path of direction 2.
  • each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones in the data transmitting system transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal when it receives the audio data.
  • the bluetooth earphone includes a voice acquisition unit, such as a microphone, through which users can input voice. The input voice information of the voice is sampled and converted into audio data by the bluetooth earphone, and the audio data needs to be sent to the mobile terminal.
  • the embodiments of the present disclosure provides a data transmitting method, which selects a transmission path for transmitting the audio data when the bluetooth earphone performs audio data transmission.
  • the embodiment of the present disclosure provides a data transmitting method, which is applied to a bluetooth earphone in the data transmitting system.
  • a bluetooth earphone in the data transmitting system.
  • one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones in the data transmitting system is taken as an example.
  • the bluetooth earphone can be any bluetooth earphone, and the bluetooth earphone is defined as a target bluetooth earphone.
  • the method includes the following operations.
  • Operation S110 the target bluetooth earphone receives audio data.
  • the target bluetooth earphone can receive the audio data.
  • the audio data received by the target bluetooth earphone can be the voice information input by the user through the audio acquisition unit of the bluetooth earphone.
  • the user inputs voice information through the microphone of the target bluetooth earphone, and the target bluetooth earphone acquires the voice information and converts it into the audio data.
  • the acquisition process and conversion process is not limited in the embodiment of the present disclosure.
  • the sound information is converted into a series of voltage-varying signals through the microphone, and then converted the signals into digital audio data by sampling.
  • the audio data received by the target bluetooth earphone can also be sent by other bluetooth earphones.
  • the audio needs to be sent to the mobile terminal.
  • the target bluetooth earphone is on the shorter path that bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal, and the target bluetooth earphone receives the audio data sent by the bluetooth earphones via bluetooth.
  • Operation S120 the target bluetooth earphone determines a target device, wherein the target device is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone in the connection loop and on the shorter of the two transmission paths.
  • the target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones or the mobile terminal.
  • the target bluetooth earphone When the target bluetooth earphone receives the audio data, the target bluetooth earphone needs to transmit the audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the target bluetooth earphone can determine the shorter transmission path from the two transmission paths corresponding to the target bluetooth earphone, the target bluetooth earphone determines the device adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone on the shorter transmission path as the target device. It can be understood that the target device may be one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones or the mobile terminal.
  • Operation S130 the target bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the target device.
  • the audio data is transmitted to the target device via bluetooth.
  • the target device can send the audio data to next device on the shorter transmission path after receiving the audio data, until the audio data is sent to the mobile terminal.
  • the audio data is successfully transmitted to the mobile terminal when the audio data is transmitted to the target device.
  • the shorter transmission path can be selected by the bluetooth earphone received the audio data to transmit the audio data to the mobile terminal for reducing transmission time.
  • the data transmitting method provided in the embodiments of the disclosure also includes the transmission of the audio data in the data transmitting system.
  • the plurality of bluetooth earphones in the data transmitting system include a first bluetooth earphone and a second bluetooth earphone.
  • the data transmitting method includes the following operations.
  • Operation S210 the first bluetooth earphone receives the audio data.
  • the first bluetooth earphone can be any bluetooth earphone in the data transmitting system, such as any one of the bluetooth earphones A to D as shown in FIG. 1 , or any of the bluetooth earphones a to e as shown in FIG. 2 .
  • the audio data received by the first bluetooth earphone may be obtained by acquiring sound signals through the voice acquisition unit and converting the sound signals into the audio data through the first bluetooth earphone.
  • the audio data obtained by the first bluetooth earphone by acquiring sound signals and converting the sound signals can be defined as a first audio data.
  • the audio data received by the first bluetooth earphone can also be transmitted from one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones which is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone, and the audio data received from one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones can be defined as a second audio data. That is, the first bluetooth earphone acquires the sound signals through the voice acquisition unit and converts the sound signals into the first audio data; and the first bluetooth earphone receives the second audio data from one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones which is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone.
  • the received first audio data and the second audio data are respectively transmitted. That is, the first audio data is transmitted when the first audio data is received, and the second audio data is transmitted when the second audio data is received.
  • the first bluetooth earphone determines whether the second audio data is received when the first audio data is obtained.
  • the first bluetooth earphone mixes the first audio data and the second audio data to form mixed audio data, and transmits the mixed audio data to the target device, when the first bluetooth earphone determines the second audio data is received.
  • the first bluetooth earphone transmits the first audio data to the target device when the target bluetooth earphone determines the second audio data isn't received.
  • the first bluetooth earphone determines whether the first audio data is obtained when the second audio data is received.
  • the first bluetooth earphone mixes the first audio data and the second audio data to form mixed audio data, and transmits the mixed audio data to the target device, when the target bluetooth earphone determines the first audio data is obtained.
  • the first bluetooth earphone transmits the second audio data to the target device when the target bluetooth earphone determines the first audio data isn't obtained.
  • the first bluetooth earphone may also receive the first audio data and the second audio data simultaneously. As an embodiment, if the first bluetooth earphone receives the first audio data and the second audio data at the same time, the first audio data and the second audio data can be mixed to form mixed audio data, and transmitting the mixed audio data to the target device.
  • the audio data obtained by mixing the first audio data and the second audio data can be defined as the mixed audio data.
  • the sampling values of the first audio data and the second audio data at the same time are superimposed to obtain sampling values corresponding to that time in the mixed audio data. If there is a sampling value corresponding to a certain time in the first audio data and no sampling value corresponding to the certain time in the second audio data, the sampling value corresponding to the certain time in the mixed audio data is the sampling value corresponding to the certain time in the first audio data corresponding the certain time.
  • the sampling value corresponding to the certain time in the mixed audio data is the sampling value corresponding to the certain time in the second audio data corresponding the certain time.
  • the mixed audio data is used for transmission to the target device.
  • the first audio data and the second audio data can also be respectively transmitted to the target device as independent audio data, and the transmission can be simultaneous.
  • Operation S220 the first bluetooth earphone determines a target device. Wherein the target device connects with the first bluetooth earphone via bluetooth in the connection loop and the target device is on the shorter of the two transmission paths.
  • the first bluetooth earphone determines the target device to be sent before transmitting the received audio data.
  • the first bluetooth earphone can calculate the number of bluetooth earphones on the two transmission paths respectively, and determine one of the two transmission paths with the smaller bluetooth earphones as the shorter transmission path. For example, if the number of bluetooth earphones on one transmission path of the first bluetooth earphone is 5 and the number of bluetooth earphones on the other transmission path is 6, the transmission path with 5 bluetooth earphones is determined as the shorter transmission path. The bluetooth earphone adjacent to the first bluetooth earphone on the shorter transmission path is determined as the target device.
  • any one transmission path can be selected for transmitting the audio data; or the transmission path through which the audio data was previously transmitted is selected as the current transmission path for transmitting audio data; or the transmission path with the strongest average signal strength is selected as the transmission path for transmitting audio data.
  • each bluetooth earphone in the process of connecting the mobile terminal and the bluetooth earphone, can record the number of bluetooth earphones in the transmission path between the earphone and the mobile terminal.
  • the bluetooth earphone connected to the mobile terminal transmits its own address to another bluetooth earphone when it is connected to the another bluetooth earphone, which receives and saves the address.
  • the bluetooth earphone When the bluetooth earphone is connected to the next bluetooth earphone, it will send its own address and the saved address to the next bluetooth earphone.
  • each bluetooth earphone can save the address of each bluetooth earphone on the two transmission paths. According to the number of bluetooth earphone addresses corresponding to the two transmission paths, the number of bluetooth earphones on the two paths can be calculated respectively.
  • each bluetooth earphone sets a parameter to records the number of bluetooth earphones on the transmission path, and the parameter value can be initialized to zero.
  • the bluetooth earphone connected to the mobile terminal keeps the parameter value at 0.
  • the bluetooth earphone connected with mobile terminal connects with other bluetooth earphones
  • the value of the parameter in the bluetooth earphone connected with mobile terminal is sent to the bluetooth earphone connected with it.
  • the bluetooth earphone that receives the parameter value adds 1 to the received parameter to save as its own parameter, and so on.
  • the parameter value of each bluetooth earphone is added 1 on the basis of the parameter value of the adjacent bluetooth earphone, and the adjacent bluetooth earphone is closer to the mobile terminal on the transmission path.
  • each bluetooth earphone can obtain the number of bluetooth earphones on the two transmission paths through this parameter value.
  • the two transmission paths include a first path and a second path
  • two parameters are stored in the target bluetooth earphone.
  • the two parameters include a first parameter and a second parameter, the first parameter is used to record the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path, the second parameter is used to record the number of bluetooth earphones on the second path.
  • the operation of the first blutooth earphone calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the two transmission paths respectively includes calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path according to the first parameter and calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the second path according to the second parameter.
  • the operation of calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path according to the first parameter includes the following operations.
  • the first bluetooth earphone sends the first parameter stored in the first bluetooth earphone to the next bluetooth earphone on the first path, when the first bluetooth earphone is connected between the mobile terminal and one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, and the first bluetooth earphone is the first bluetooth earphone on the first path.
  • the first bluetooth earphone can receive the first parameter from a previous bluetooth earphone on the first path, the first bluetooth earphone updates the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to a new first parameter, wherein the new first parameter equal to the first parameter received from the previous bluetooth earphone plus 1, and the first bluetooth earphone can determine the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone as the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path, after updating the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to the new first parameter.
  • the operation of calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the second path according to the second parameter can include the following operations.
  • the first bluetooth earphone sends the second parameter stored in the first bluetooth earphone to the next bluetooth earphone on the second path, when the first bluetooth earphone is connected between the mobile terminal and one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, and the first bluetooth earphone is the first bluetooth earphone on the second path.
  • the first bluetooth earphone When the first bluetooth earphone is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, the first bluetooth earphone can receive the second parameter from a previous bluetooth earphone on the second path, the target bluetooth earphone can update the second parameter stored in the first bluetooth earphone to a new second parameter, wherein the new second parameter equal to the second parameter received from the previous bluetooth earphone plus 1, and the target bluetooth earphone can determine the second parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone as the number of bluetooth earphones on second first path, after updating the second parameter stored in the first bluetooth earphone to the new second parameter.
  • the number of bluetooth earphones can be determined to be 2 in the transmission path of direction 1.
  • the bluetooth earphone a can record the value of the first parameter corresponding to transmission path of direction 1 as 0.
  • the bluetooth earphone a sends the value 0 of the first parameter to the bluetooth earphone b connected to it, then the bluetooth earphone b updates the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to a new first parameter, and the new first parameter equal to the first parameter received from the bluetooth earphone a plus 1, and the new first parameter equal to 1.
  • the bluetooth earphone b transmits the value 1 of the new first parameter to the bluetooth earphone c.
  • the bluetooth earphone c adds 1 to the first parameter received from the bluetooth earphone b, and determine the value of the first parameter stored in the bluetooth earphone c is 2. Therefore, the number of bluetooth earphones on the transmission path of the direction 1 of the bluetooth earphone c can be determined as 2 according to the value of the first parameter. If the bluetooth earphone d records the second parameter value is x, it indicates the number of bluetooth earphones between the bluetooth earphone d and mobile terminal on the transmission path is x, the transmission path is from mobile terminal to the main earphone a , the slave earphone e and until to the slave earphone d.
  • the bluetooth earphone c When the bluetooth earphone d is connected to the bluetooth earphone c , the value x of the second parameter is sent to the bluetooth earphone c.
  • the bluetooth earphone c adds 1 to the value x , and the value of the second parameter can be recorded as ( x +1) by the bluetooth earphone c. Therefore, the bluetooth earphone c can determine that the number of bluetooth earphones in the transmission path of the bluetooth earphone c in direction 2 is ( x +1) according to the value of the second parameter ( x +1).
  • the first bluetooth earphone is a bluetooth earphone directly connected to the mobile terminal
  • the first bluetooth earphone can directly send the audio data to the mobile terminal without relaying through other bluetooth earphones. Therefore, the mobile terminal can be determined as the target device. It can be understood that the identity information is exchanged between the interconnected mobile terminal and the bluetooth earphone, and between two interconnected bluetooth earphones, so that each bluetooth earphone can know whether it is connected to the bluetooth earphone or the mobile terminal.
  • the mobile terminal can be determined as the target device because the main earphone is directly connected to the mobile terminal, and the transmission path is the shorter.
  • the data transmitting system is as illustrated in FIG. 2 , all the audio data from the slave earphones needs to be sent to the mobile terminal through the main earphone.
  • the first bluetooth earphone is one of the plurality of slave earphone and the first bluetooth earphone is connected with the main earphone via bluetooth
  • the audio data is transmitted to the main earphone by the first bluetooth earphone
  • the main earphone transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the transmission path is the shorter, so the main earphone is determined as the target device. It can be understood that when the main earphone is connected with the first bluetooth earphone, the identity information is exchanged with each other, so that the first bluetooth earphone can recognize the main earphone from the bluetooth earphones connected to it.
  • the first bluetooth earphone is on the shorter transmission path from another bluetooth earphone to the mobile terminal, and the shorter transmission path from the first bluetooth earphone to the mobile terminal should also be the shorter transmission path from the another bluetooth earphone to the mobile terminal.
  • the target device on the shorter transmission path should be one of the two devices adjacent to the first bluetooth earphone and is different from the device which transmits the second audio data to the first bluetooth earphone. That is, there are two devices adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone in the connection loop, the first bluetooth earphone can determine one of the two devices as the target device, wherein the second audio data is not transmitted from the target device.
  • the slave earphone c is the first bluetooth earphone and receives the second audio data transmitted from the earphone d. It indicates that the shorter transmission path from the earphone d to the mobile terminal is the transmission path in the direction 1.
  • the shorter transmission path is from the slave earphone d to the mobile terminal through the slave earphone c, the slave earphone b and the main earphone a.
  • the transmission path in the direction 1 is shorter than the transmission path from the slave earphone d in the direction 1.
  • the transmission path from the slave earphone c in the direction 2 is longer than the transmission path from the earphone d in the direction 2.
  • the direction of the shorter transmission path from the slave earphone c is the same as that from the slave earphone d. That is to say, the target device on the shorter transmission path of the slave earphone c is one of the two adjacent devices and different from the earphone d that transmits the second audio data, that is, the target device is the slave earphone b.
  • Operation S230 the first bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the target device.
  • Operation S240 when the target device is the second bluetooth earphone, the second bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to a next target device, until the audio data is transmitted to the mobile terminal, wherein the next target device connects with the second bluetooth earphone via bluetooth on the shorter transmission path.
  • the first bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the determined target device.
  • the target device is the mobile terminal, the transmission of the audio data in the data transmitting system is completed.
  • the target device If the target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphone, the target device continues to transmit the audio data.
  • the earphone receives the audio data from the first bluetooth earphone is defined as the second bluetooth earphone.
  • the second bluetooth earphone then transmits the audio data to the next target device connected via bluetooth on the shorter transmission path, which is adjacent to the second bluetooth earphone on the shorter transmission path.
  • the second bluetooth earphone determines the target device on the shorter transmission path among the two transmission paths. If the target device is a mobile terminal, the transmission of the audio data in the data transmitting system is completed after the audio data is transmitted to the target device. If the target device is the bluetooth earphone, then the audio data is transmitted to the next target device on the shorter transmission path of the bluetooth earphone, the audio data is transmitted in sequence until it is transmitted to the mobile terminal.
  • the data transmitting system shown in FIG. 2 is taken as an example for specific description.
  • the bluetooth earphone c in FIG. 2 receives the audio data
  • the bluetooth earphone c determines the transmission path in direction 1 as the shorter transmission path.
  • the target device of the bluetooth earphone c is the bluetooth earphone b
  • the audio data is transmitted to the bluetooth earphone b.
  • the bluetooth earphone b receives the audio data, and determines that its target device is the bluetooth earphone a , and transmits the audio data to the bluetooth earphone a.
  • the bluetooth earphone a is connected to the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal is determined as the target device of the bluetooth earphone a.
  • the bluetooth earphone a transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal to complete the transmission of the audio data.
  • the audio data is received by the bluetooth earphone and needs to be transmitted to the mobile terminal.
  • the audio data can be acquired by its voice acquisition unit, or the audio data is acquired by other bluetooth earphones through a voice acquisition unit and be transmitted to the bluetooth earphone.
  • the audio data can include a first label for instructing the bluetooth earphone to transmit the audio data to the mobile terminal. That is to say, if the bluetooth earphone receives the audio data having the first label, it performs the foregoing process of transmitting the audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the mobile terminal can also send audio data to the bluetooth earphone.
  • the mobile terminal transmits the audio data to the bluetooth earphone connected with the mobile terminal, and the bluetooth earphone connected with the mobile terminal transmits the audio data to the next bluetooth earphone connected with it.
  • the audio data is sequentially transmitted, so that all the bluetooth earphones can receive the audio data transmitted from the mobile terminal.
  • the audio data transmitted from the mobile terminal to the bluetooth earphone can include a second label. If the bluetooth earphone receives the audio data having the second label, the audio data is transmitted to other bluetooth earphones.
  • the first bluetooth earphone can determine whether the audio data includes a first label or a second label, wherein the first label is used to instruct the bluetooth earphone to send the audio data to the mobile terminal, the second label is used to indicate that the audio data is transmitted from the mobile terminal to the plurality of bluetooth earphones.
  • the first bluetooth earphone can transmit the audio data to the target device when the audio data include the first label.
  • the first bluetooth earphone determines whether the target device is the bluetooth earphone or the mobile terminal.
  • the first bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the target device when the target device is the bluetooth earphone, and the first bluetooth earphone ends the transmission of the audio data when the target device is the mobile terminal.
  • the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop.
  • the bluetooth earphone may receive audio data transmitted by the mobile terminal from both sides of the two transmission paths. Therefore, if a bluetooth earphone has received audio data with a second label, it can refuse to accept the same audio data with the second label, and the audio data is no longer sent to other bluetooth earphones.
  • the mobile terminal can send the audio data received from the bluetooth earphone to other mobile terminals through the network.
  • the mobile terminal can also receive audio data from other mobile terminals through the network and send it to each bluetooth earphone.
  • the data transmitting system can further include another mobile terminal been connected with the mobile terminal through the network.
  • the mobile terminal can transmit the audio data received from the first bluetooth earphone to the another mobile terminal.
  • the bluetooth earphone receives the audio data which is transmitted to the mobile terminal, and determines the target device that transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the target device is adjacent to the bluetooth earphone on the shorter transmission path.
  • the bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the target device. If the target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, the similar transmission process of the bluetooth earphone is performed again, that is, the audio data is transmitted to the adjacent device on its shorter transmission path, until the audio data is transmitted to the mobile terminal.
  • the bluetooth earphone can select the transmission path of the audio data according to the length of the transmission path, so as to reduce the amount of data processing and reduce the transmission time.
  • the embodiments of the present disclosure also provides a data transmission device 300, which is applied to the target bluetooth earphone.
  • the target bluetooth earphone can be any bluetooth earphone in the data transmitting system.
  • the device 300 includes an audio receiving module 310 configured to receive audio data by the target bluetooth earphone; a target device determining module 320 configured to determine a target device, wherein the target device is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone in the connection loop and on the shorter of the two transmission paths, and the target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones or the mobile terminal; an audio transmission module 330 configured to transmit the audio data to the target device.
  • the target bluetooth earphone includes a voice acquisition unit, such as a microphone, for voice acquisition.
  • the audio receiving module 310 can be configured to acquire sound signals through the voice acquisition unit and converting the sound signals into the first audio data, or can also be configured to receive the second audio data from one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones which is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone.
  • the audio transmission module 330 can be configured to mix the first audio data and the second audio data to form mixed audio data, and transmit the mixed audio data to the target device.
  • the embodiments of the present disclosure may also include a shorter transmission path determining module for calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the two transmission paths respectively, and determining one of the two transmission paths with the smaller number of bluetooth earphones as the shorter transmission path.
  • the target device determining module 320 may be used to determine one of the two devices as the target device, wherein the second audio data is not transmitted from the target device.
  • the target device determining module 320 may be configured to determine the mobile terminal as the target device.
  • the target device determining module 320 may be configured to determine the mobile terminal as the target device.
  • the target device determining module 320 may be configured to determine the main earphone as the target device.
  • the embodiment of the present disclosure also provides a data transmitting system.
  • the data transmitting system includes a mobile terminal and a plurality of bluetooth earphones.
  • the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop, each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are sequentially connected in head-to-tail manner, and the mobile terminal is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones.
  • the mobile phone is connected with the adjacent left and right earphones, and each earphone is connected with another earphone to form a two-way earphone loop.
  • the plurality of bluetooth earphones include a main earphone and a plurality of slave earphones, in the connection loop formed by the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones, the mobile terminal connects with the main earphone via bluetooth, the main earphone and the plurality of slave earphones are sequentially connected in head-to-tail manner, and the main earphone is connected between two slave earphones of the plurality of slave earphones.
  • the mobile phone can establish bluetooth connection with the main earphone, such as an hfp connection.
  • the main earphone is connected with the adjacent left and right earphones to form a two-way earphone loop.
  • the main earphone receives the audio data transmitted by other earphones, the audio data can be transmitted to the mobile terminal through the hfp sco link.
  • the pairing passwords of each bluetooth earphone and the mobile terminal can be the same and equal to the pairing password between the bluetooth earphones.
  • the pairing passwords between each slave earphone, the main earphone and the mobile terminal are the same.
  • the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones can be connected to form the connection loop.
  • the coupling between modules can be electrical, mechanical or other forms of coupling.
  • each functional module in each embodiment of the present disclosure can be integrated into one processing module, or each module can exist physically separately, or two or more modules can be integrated into one module.
  • the above integrated modules can be implemented either in the form of hardware or in the form of software functional modules.
  • the mobile terminal 400 can be a mobile terminal capable of running an application, such as a smart phone, a tablet computer, or a computer.
  • the mobile terminal 400 includes one or more processors 410 (only one is shown in the figure), a memory 420, a bluetooth module 430 and one or more computer programs.
  • the one or more computer programs are stored in the memory 420 and configured to be executed by the one or more processors 410.
  • the one or more computer programs are configured to execute the method of one or more embodiments above.
  • Each processor 410 can include one or more processing cores. Each processor 410 connects various parts of the entire mobile terminal 400 using various interfaces and lines. It performs various functions and processes data of the mobile terminal 400 by running or executing instructions, programs, code sets or instruction sets stored in memory 420 and calling data stored in memory 420.
  • the processor 410 can be implemented in at least one hardware form such as digital signal processing (DSP), a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), and a programmable logic array (PLA).
  • DSP digital signal processing
  • FPGA field-programmable gate array
  • PDA programmable logic array
  • the processor 410 can integrate one or more combinations of a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), a modem, and the like.
  • the CPU mainly deals with the operating system, user interface and disclosures; the GPU is responsible for rendering and drawing of the display content; the modem is used to process wireless communication. It can be understood that the above modem may not be integrated into the processor 410 and can be implemented separately by a communication chip.
  • the memory 420 can include a random access memory (RAM), or a read-only memory.
  • the memory 420 can be used to store instructions, programs, code, code sets or instructions sets.
  • the memory 420 can include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area can store instructions for implementing an operating system, instructions for implementing at least one function, instructions for implementing the various method embodiments described above, and the like.
  • the storage data area can also store the data (such as a phone book, audio and video data, and chat record data) created by the mobile terminal 400 in use.
  • the bluetooth module 430 may refer to a set of basic circuit of chips integrated bluetooth function for wireless network communication.
  • the bluetooth module 430 is electrically connected to the processor, and the mobile terminal can be connected to the bluetooth earphone through the bluetooth module 430.
  • the mobile terminal can include a plurality of bluetooth modules, and each bluetooth modules is used to connect different bluetooth earphones.
  • the embodiments of the present disclosure further provides a bluetooth earphone 500.
  • the bluetooth earphone includes a voice acquisition unit 510, a bluetooth module 520 and a processing unit 530.
  • the voice acquisition unit 510 and the bluetooth module 520 are connected to the processing unit 530, respectively.
  • the bluetooth module 520 is used to connect the bluetooth earphone with the mobile terminal and other bluetooth earphones.
  • the bluetooth earphone can include plurality of bluetooth modules, and different bluetooth modules are used to connect different devices.
  • the bluetooth earphone includes a first bluetooth module, a second bluetooth module, and a third bluetooth module.
  • the first bluetooth module is used to connect with the mobile terminal
  • the second bluetooth module is used to connect with a bluetooth earphone
  • the third bluetooth module is used to connect with another bluetooth earphone.
  • the voice acquisition unit 510 is used to collect voice information and send it to the processing unit.
  • the processing unit 530 is used to perform processing operations, such as sampling, encoding, filtering and the like, on the voice information to obtain the audio data.
  • the processing unit is also used to receive the audio data transmitted by other bluetooth earphones and mix it with the audio data obtained by the voice acquisition unit.
  • the processing unit 530 is further configured to perform the method operations corresponding to the bluetooth earphone described in the above method embodiments.
  • FIG. 8 a schematic view of a computer readable storage medium provided by in the embodiment of the present disclosure is illustrated.
  • Program code is stored in the computer readable storage medium 600, and the program code can be executable by a processor to execute the method of the embodiments described above.
  • the computer readable storage medium 600 can be an electronic memory such as a flash memory, an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory), an EPROM, a hard disk, or a ROM. Alternatively, the computer readable storage medium 600 may be a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.
  • the computer readable storage medium 600 has a storage space for program code 610 that performs any of the method operations described above.
  • the program code can be read from or written to one or more computer program products.
  • Program code 610 can be compressed, for example, in a suitable form.

Abstract

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmitting method and a system The target bluetooth earphone is applied to a data transmitting system. The data transmitting system includes a mobile terminal and a plurality of earphones, the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop, in which each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal. In the method, the target bluetooth earphone receives audio data. The target bluetooth earphone determines a target device, wherein the target device is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone in the connection loop and on the shorter of the two transmission paths, and the target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones or the mobile terminal. The target bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the target device.

Description

    TECHNICAL FIELD
  • The present disclosure relates to a field of bluetooth device, and particularly to a data transmitting method and a system.
  • BACKGROUND
  • With the development of mobile terminal technology and wireless connection technology, the technology of bluetooth earphone is improved and widely used. Wherein, the bluetooth earphone connects to the mobile terminal through bluetooth, and can receive the audio data transmitted by the mobile terminal for audio playback. The data transmission between the earphone and the mobile terminal no longer depends on the wired connection, which makes the earphone more convenient to use. However, the data transmission between the bluetooth earphone and the mobile terminal is single, which cannot meet the requirements of the users.
  • SUMMARY
  • In view of the above problems, the present disclosure provides a data transmitting method and a system to improve the above problems.
  • In a first aspect, the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmitting method, the data transmitting method is applied to a target bluetooth earphone. The target bluetooth earphone is applied to a data transmitting system. The data transmitting system includes a mobile terminal and a plurality of earphones, the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop, in which each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal. The target bluetooth earphone is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones. The method includes the following operations. The target bluetooth earphone receives audio data. The target bluetooth earphone determines a target device, wherein the target device is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone in the connection loop and on the shorter of the two transmission paths, and the target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones or the mobile terminal. The target bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the target device.
  • Optionally, the target bluetooth earphone includes a voice acquisition unit. The operation of the target bluetooth earphone receiving audio data includes the target bluetooth earphone acquiring sound signals through the voice acquisition unit and converting the sound signals into first audio data, and the target bluetooth earphone receiving second audio data from one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones which is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone. The operation of the target bluetooth earphone transmitting the audio data to the target device includes the target bluetooth earphone mixing the first audio data and the second audio data to form mixed audio data, and transmitting the mixed audio data to the target device.
  • Optionally, there are two devices adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone in the connection loop. The operation of the target bluetooth earphone determining a target device includes determining one of the two devices as the target device, wherein the second audio data is not transmitted from the target device.
  • Optionally, the operation of the target bluetooth earphone determining a target device includes determining the mobile terminal as the target device when the target bluetooth earphone is connected with the mobile terminal.
  • Optionally, prior to the operation of the target bluetooth earphone determining a target device, the method further includes calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the two transmission paths respectively; determining one of the two transmission paths with the smaller number of bluetooth earphones as the shorter transmission path.
  • Optionally, wherein the two transmission paths include a first path and a second path. Two parameters are stored in the target bluetooth earphone. The two parameters include a first parameter and a second parameter. The first parameter is used to record the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path, and the second parameter is used to record the number of bluetooth earphones on the second path. The operation of calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the two transmission paths respectively includes calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path according to the first parameter and calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the second path according to the second parameter.
  • Optionally, the first parameter is initialized to zero. The operation of calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path according to the first parameter includes the target bluetooth earphone sending the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to the next bluetooth earphone on the first path, when the target bluetooth earphone is connected between the mobile terminal and one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, and the target bluetooth earphone is the first bluetooth earphone on the first path; the target bluetooth earphone receiving the first parameter from a previous bluetooth earphone on the first path, when the target bluetooth earphone is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, the target bluetooth earphone updating the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to a new first parameter, wherein the new first parameter equal to the first parameter received from the previous bluetooth earphone plus 1, and the target bluetooth earphone determining the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone as the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path.
  • Optionally, the second parameter is initialized to zero. The operation of calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the second path according to the second parameter includes the target bluetooth earphone sending the second parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to the next bluetooth earphone on the second path, when the target bluetooth earphone is connected between the mobile terminal and one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, and the target bluetooth earphone is the first bluetooth earphone on the second path; the target bluetooth earphone receiving the second parameter from a previous bluetooth earphone on the second path, when the target bluetooth earphone is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, the target bluetooth earphone updating the second parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to a new second parameter, wherein the new second parameter equal to the second parameter received from the previous bluetooth earphone plus 1, and the target bluetooth earphone determining the second parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone as the number of bluetooth earphones on second first path.
  • Optionally, the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are sequentially connected in head-to-tail manner, and the mobile terminal is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones.
  • Optionally, the plurality of bluetooth earphones include a main earphone and a plurality of slave earphones. The mobile terminal connects with the main earphone via bluetooth, the main earphone and the plurality of slave earphones are sequentially connected in head-to-tail manner, and the main earphone is connected between two slave earphones of the plurality of slave earphones. The operation of the target bluetooth earphone determining a target device includes determining the mobile terminal as the target device when the target bluetooth earphone is the main earphone.
  • Optionally, the operation of the target bluetooth earphone determining a target device includes determining the main earphone as the target device when the target bluetooth earphone is a slave earphone and connected with the main earphone.
  • Optionally, prior to the operation of the target bluetooth earphone transmitting the audio data to the target device, the method further includes determining whether the audio data comprises a first label or a second label, wherein the first label is used to instruct the bluetooth earphone to send the audio data to the mobile terminal, the second label is used to indicate that the audio data is transmitted from the mobile terminal to the plurality of bluetooth earphones; performing the operation of the target bluetooth earphone transmitting the audio data to the target device when the audio data comprises the first label; determining whether the target device is the bluetooth earphone or the mobile terminal, when the audio data comprises the second label; performing the operation of the target bluetooth earphone transmitting the audio data to the target device when the target device is the bluetooth earphone, ending the transmission of the audio data when the target device is the mobile terminal.
  • In a second aspect, the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmitting method, the data transmitting method is applied to a data transmitting system. The data transmitting system includes a mobile terminal and a plurality of bluetooth earphones, the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop. Each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal. The plurality of bluetooth earphones include a first bluetooth earphone and a second bluetooth earphone. The method includes the following operations. The first bluetooth earphone receives audio data. The first bluetooth earphone determining a target device, wherein the target device connects with the first bluetooth earphone via bluetooth in the connection loop and the target device is on the shorter of the two transmission paths. The first bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the target device. And when the target device is the second bluetooth earphone, the second bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to a next target device, until the audio data is transmitted to the mobile terminal, wherein the next target device connects with the second bluetooth earphone via bluetooth on the shorter transmission path.
  • Optionally, the data transmitting system further includes another mobile terminal been connected with the mobile terminal through network, the method further includes the mobile terminal transmitting the audio data received from the first bluetooth earphone to the another mobile terminal.
  • In a third aspect, the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmitting system, wherein the data transmitting system includes a mobile terminal and a plurality of bluetooth earphones, the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop, each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal. Each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones is configured to perform the data transmitting method.
  • The data transmitting method and system provided by the embodiments of the present application, the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones form a connection loop, where each bluetooth earphone corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal. The target bluetooth earphone in the plurality of bluetooth earphones receives the audio data, determines a target device, wherein the target device is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone and on the shorter of the two transmission paths, and transmits the audio data to the target device. In this solution, the bluetooth headset can select the shorter path from the two transmission paths, so that the audio data can be transmitted to the mobile terminal as quickly as possible.
  • BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
  • In order to illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure more clearly, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly described below. It is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present disclosure. For those skilled in the art, other drawings can also be obtained from these drawings without any creative effort.
    • FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a data transmitting system according to embodiments of the present disclosure.
    • FIG. 2 is another schematic view of a data transmitting system according to embodiments of the present disclosure.
    • FIG. 3 is a schematic flowchart view of a data transmitting method method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
    • FIG. 4 is a schematic flowchart view of a data transmitting method according to another embodiment of the present disclosure.
    • FIG. 5 is a functional block view of a data transmitting device according to embodiments of the present disclosure.
    • FIG. 6 is a schematic structural view of a mobile terminal according to embodiments of the present disclosure.
    • FIG. 7 is a schematic structural view of a bluetooth earphone according to embodiments of the present disclosure.
    • FIG. 8 is a storage unit for saving or carrying program codes for implementing a data transmitting method according to embodiments of the present disclosure.
    DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS
  • In order to better understand the disclosure for those skilled in the art, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure are clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • With the increase of the types and the improvement of the sound effect for audio play device, more users will choose to output the audio played by mobile terminals such as mobile phones and tablet computers to the audio playback device. Wherein, the audio play devices include car music players, speakers and earphone and so on. Among them, the earphones include wired earphones or wireless earphones.
  • Taking the earphone as an example, if the earphone is wired earphone, the wired earphone and the mobile terminal are connected by the physical line, and the mobile terminal transmits the audio to the wired earphone through the physical line, so that the wired earphone can play the audio.
  • In order to liberate the use of the earphone from the wired situation, make the connection between the earphone and the mobile terminal not depend on the physical line and increasing the convenience of the use of the earphone, the wireless earphone comes into being. The wireless earphone establishes a communication link in advance according to the wireless communication protocol supported by the mobile terminal, and then the mobile terminal transmits audio to the wireless earphone through the communication link, so that the wireless earphone can play audio. The wireless communication protocol can include WLAN protocol, bluetooth protocol, ZigBee protocol, and the like. The disclosure describes wireless earphones connected via bluetooth protocol as an example.
  • In the embodiment of the present disclosure, an earphone which can establish a bluetooth connection with other devices such as electronic devices through a bluetooth protocol, a private protocol, or other command, and perform data transmission is defined as a bluetooth earphone, such as a TWS (True Wireless Stereo) earphone, a TWS Plus earphone, and so on. Of course, the bluetooth earphone can also be connected to other bluetooth earphones via bluetooth.
  • The mobile terminal can be connected with a bluetooth earphone or connected with a plurality of bluetooth earphones. Each bluetooth earphone can also be connected with one of the other bluetooth earphones or connected with a plurality of other bluetooth earphones. the plurality of bluetooth earphones may be two or more bluetooth earphones.
  • The mobile terminal and a plurality of bluetooth earphones can form a data transmitting system for data transmission. In the data transmitting system, the mobile terminal can send data to the bluetooth earphones connected with the mobile terminal via bluetooth, and each bluetooth earphone can also send data to each bluetooth earphone connected. Wherein, in the data transmitting system, the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop, in which each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal. Wherein the bluetooth earphone can transmit the audio data to the mobile terminal through the two transmission paths. Each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones in the data transmitting system is configured to receive audio data; determine a target device, wherein the target device is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone in the connection loop and on the shorter of the two transmission paths, and the target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones or the mobile terminal; and transmit the audio data to the target device until the audio data is transmitted to the mobile terminal.
  • As an embodiment, the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are sequentially connected in head-to-tail manner, and the mobile terminal is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones. As shown in FIG. 1, in the data transmitting system, the mobile terminal 400 is connected to the bluetooth earphone A, and the bluetooth earphone A is connected to the bluetooth earphone B via bluetooth. The bluetooth earphone B is connected with the bluetooth earphone A, and is also connected with the bluetooth earphone C. The bluetooth earphones connect in sequence until bluetooth earphone D is connected with a bluetooth earphone, and the bluetooth earphone D is connected with the mobile terminal 400. The bluetooth earphone A is simultaneously connected to one other bluetooth earphone and the mobile terminal, and the bluetooth earphone D is simultaneously connected to one other bluetooth earphone and the mobile terminal. In this embodiment, the number of bluetooth earphones between the bluetooth earphone A and the bluetooth earphone D is not limited. It can be one or more, or can be zero.
  • As shown in FIG. 1, in this embodiment, each bluetooth earphone of the plurality of earphones has two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal, which are the transmission paths shown by direction 1 and direction 2 in FIG. 1. The two transmission paths of each bluetooth earphone correspond to two adjacent devices, and the two adjacent devices are on the two transmission paths respectively. As shown in FIG. 1, the two devices adjacent to one bluetooth earphone of the plurality of earphones may be two adjacent bluetooth earphones, or a bluetooth earphone and a mobile terminal.
  • For example, as shown in FIG. 1, in the two transmission paths corresponding to the bluetooth earphone A, the transmission path in direction 1 is the path that the bluetooth earphone A transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal. The transmission path shown in direction 2 is the path that bluetooth earphone A transmits the audio data to bluetooth earphone B. Then the bluetooth earphone B transmits the audio data to the bluetooth earphone C, and the bluetooth earphone C transmits the audio data to the next bluetooth earphone until the audio data transmitted to the bluetooth earphone D in direction 2 as shown in FIG. 1. The bluetooth earphone D then transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal. For the bluetooth earphone A, the mobile terminal adjacent to the bluetooth earphone A is on the transmission path of the direction 1, and the bluetooth earphone B adjacent to the bluetooth earphone A is on the transmission path of the direction 2.
  • For example, as shown in FIG. 1, in the two transmission paths corresponding to the bluetooth earphone B, the transmission path in direction 1 is the path that bluetooth earphone B transmits the audio data to the bluetooth earphone A, and the bluetooth earphone A transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal. The transmission path shown in direction 2 is the path that bluetooth earphone B transmits the audio data to bluetooth earphone C, the bluetooth earphone C transmits the audio data to the next bluetooth earphone until the audio data is sequentially transmitted to the bluetooth earphone D in the direction 2 as shown in FIG. 1. The bluetooth earphone D then transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal. For the bluetooth earphone B, the bluetooth earphone A adjacent to the bluetooth earphone B is on the transmission path of the direction 1, and the bluetooth earphone C adjacent to the bluetooth earphone B is on the transmission path of the direction 2.
  • As another embodiments, the plurality of bluetooth earphones include a main earphone and a plurality of slave earphones in the data transmitting system. In the connection loop formed by the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones, the mobile terminal connects with the main earphone via bluetooth, the main earphone and the plurality of slave earphones are sequentially connected in head-to-tail manner, and the main earphone is connected between two slave earphones of the plurality of slave earphones. Of course, in this embodiments, it can also be understood that the data transmitting system further includes a main earphone on the basis of the plurality of slave earphones. It can also be understood that, in addition to the plurality of bluetooth earphones in the foregoing embodiment, a bluetooth earphone as the main earphone is also included, and the plurality of bluetooth earphones of the foregoing embodiments are used as the plurality of slave earphones.
  • As shown in FIG. 2, in the data transmitting system, the bluetooth earphone a serves as the main earphone, and the other bluetooth earphones serve as the plurality of slave earphones. The mobile terminal 400 is connected with the bluetooth earphone a via bluetooth. The main earphone a is connected with the slave earphone b, and the earphone b is connected with the slave earphone c. The slave earphone c is connected with the slave earphone b and also connected with the earphone d. The earphones are connected sequentially like this until the slave earphone e is connected with a slave earphone, the slave earphone e is then connected with the main earphone a. Wherein, the main earphone a is simultaneously connected to two slave earphones of the plurality of slave earphones and the mobile terminal. Each slave earphone is simultaneously connected with two bluetooth earphones, for example, slave earphone b is connected with the main earphone a and the slave earphone c, and slave earphone c is connected with the slave earphone b and the slave earphone d. In this embodiment, the number of the plurality of slave earphones is not limited, and can be two or more.
  • As shown in FIG. 2, in this embodiment, the main earphone may have only one transmission path for transmitting the audio data to the mobile terminal, that is, the main earphone directly transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal. Of course, the main earphone may also have more than one transmission path for transmitting the audio data to the mobile terminal. For example, the main earphone transmits the audio data to an adjacent slave earphone, and the adjacent slave earphone sequentially transmits the audio data to other slave earphones until the audio data is transmitted to the main earphone and then transmitted to the mobile terminal by the main earphone. The main earphones may be adjacent to one of the plurality of slave earphones or the mobile terminal.
  • In this embodiments, each of the slave earphones has two transmission paths for transmitting the audio data to the mobile terminal, the two transmission paths are shown by direction 1 and direction 2 in FIG. 2. The two transmission paths of each bluetooth earphone correspond to two adjacent devices, and the two adjacent devices are on the two transmission paths respectively. As shown in FIG. 2, the two devices adjacent to one slave bluetooth earphone of the plurality of slave earphones are two bluetooth earphones, which may be two slave earphones, or one main earphone and one slave earphone.
  • For example, as shown in FIG. 2, in the two transmission paths corresponding to the slave earphone b, the transmission path shown in direction 1 is to transmit the audio data from the slave earphone b to the main earphone a, and then the audio data is transmitted from the main earphone a to the mobile terminal. The transmission path shown in direction 2 is to transmit the audio data from the slave earphone b to the slave earphone c, and the audio data is transmitted from the earphone c to the slave earphone d. The slave earphone d transmits the audio data to the next slave earphone until the audio data transmitted to the slave earphone e in direction 2 as shown in FIG. 2. Then the audio data is transmitted from the slave earphone e to the main earphone a, and the main earphone a transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal. For the slave earphone b, the main earphone a adjacent to the slave earphone b is on the transmission path of direction 1, and the adjacent slave earphone c is on the transmission path of direction 2.
  • For another example, as shown in FIG. 2, in the two transmission paths corresponding to the slave earphone c, on the transmission path of direction 1, the audio data is transmitted from the slave earphone c to the slave earphone b. The slave earphone b transmits the audio data to the main earphone a, then the audio data is transmitted from the main earphone a to the mobile terminal. On the transmission path of direction 2, the audio data is transmitted from the slave earphone c to the slave earphone d. The slave earphone d transmits the audio data to the next slave earphone, until the audio data is sequentially transmitted to the slave earphone e, the slave earphone e transmits the audio data to the main earphone a, then the audio data is transmitted from the main earphone a to the mobile terminal. For the slave earphone c, the adjacent slave earphone b is on the transmission path of direction 1, and the adjacent slave earphone d is on the transmission path of direction 2.
  • In the embodiment of the present disclosure, each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones in the data transmitting system transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal when it receives the audio data. For example, the bluetooth earphone includes a voice acquisition unit, such as a microphone, through which users can input voice. The input voice information of the voice is sampled and converted into audio data by the bluetooth earphone, and the audio data needs to be sent to the mobile terminal. The embodiments of the present disclosure provides a data transmitting method, which selects a transmission path for transmitting the audio data when the bluetooth earphone performs audio data transmission.
  • The data transmitting method, and the mobile terminal 400 provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail below through specific embodiments.
  • Referring to FIG.3, the embodiment of the present disclosure provides a data transmitting method, which is applied to a bluetooth earphone in the data transmitting system. In this embodiment, one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones in the data transmitting system is taken as an example. The bluetooth earphone can be any bluetooth earphone, and the bluetooth earphone is defined as a target bluetooth earphone. As shown in FIG. 3, the method includes the following operations.
  • Operation S110: the target bluetooth earphone receives audio data.
  • The target bluetooth earphone can receive the audio data.
  • The audio data received by the target bluetooth earphone can be the voice information input by the user through the audio acquisition unit of the bluetooth earphone. For example, the user inputs voice information through the microphone of the target bluetooth earphone, and the target bluetooth earphone acquires the voice information and converts it into the audio data. The acquisition process and conversion process is not limited in the embodiment of the present disclosure. For example, the sound information is converted into a series of voltage-varying signals through the microphone, and then converted the signals into digital audio data by sampling.
  • The audio data received by the target bluetooth earphone can also be sent by other bluetooth earphones. For example, after one bluetooth earphone of the plurality of earphones receives the voice information input by the user and converts it into the audio data, the audio needs to be sent to the mobile terminal. The target bluetooth earphone is on the shorter path that bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal, and the target bluetooth earphone receives the audio data sent by the bluetooth earphones via bluetooth.
  • Operation S120: the target bluetooth earphone determines a target device, wherein the target device is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone in the connection loop and on the shorter of the two transmission paths. The target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones or the mobile terminal.
  • When the target bluetooth earphone receives the audio data, the target bluetooth earphone needs to transmit the audio data to the mobile terminal. The target bluetooth earphone can determine the shorter transmission path from the two transmission paths corresponding to the target bluetooth earphone, the target bluetooth earphone determines the device adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone on the shorter transmission path as the target device. It can be understood that the target device may be one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones or the mobile terminal.
  • Operation S130: the target bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the target device.
  • The audio data is transmitted to the target device via bluetooth.
  • If the target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, the target device can send the audio data to next device on the shorter transmission path after receiving the audio data, until the audio data is sent to the mobile terminal.
  • If the target device is the mobile terminal, the audio data is successfully transmitted to the mobile terminal when the audio data is transmitted to the target device.
  • In the embodiments of the present disclosure, after receiving the audio data, the shorter transmission path can be selected by the bluetooth earphone received the audio data to transmit the audio data to the mobile terminal for reducing transmission time.
  • The data transmitting method provided in the embodiments of the disclosure also includes the transmission of the audio data in the data transmitting system. The plurality of bluetooth earphones in the data transmitting system include a first bluetooth earphone and a second bluetooth earphone. Specifically, referring to FIG. 4, the data transmitting method includes the following operations.
  • Operation S210: the first bluetooth earphone receives the audio data.
  • The first bluetooth earphone can be any bluetooth earphone in the data transmitting system, such as any one of the bluetooth earphones A to D as shown in FIG. 1, or any of the bluetooth earphones a to e as shown in FIG. 2. The audio data received by the first bluetooth earphone may be obtained by acquiring sound signals through the voice acquisition unit and converting the sound signals into the audio data through the first bluetooth earphone. In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the audio data obtained by the first bluetooth earphone by acquiring sound signals and converting the sound signals can be defined as a first audio data. The audio data received by the first bluetooth earphone can also be transmitted from one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones which is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone, and the audio data received from one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones can be defined as a second audio data. That is, the first bluetooth earphone acquires the sound signals through the voice acquisition unit and converts the sound signals into the first audio data; and the first bluetooth earphone receives the second audio data from one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones which is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone.
  • Wherein, if the time when the first audio data is received is different from the time when the second audio data is received, the received first audio data and the second audio data are respectively transmitted. That is, the first audio data is transmitted when the first audio data is received, and the second audio data is transmitted when the second audio data is received.
  • In the embodiments, the first bluetooth earphone determines whether the second audio data is received when the first audio data is obtained. The first bluetooth earphone mixes the first audio data and the second audio data to form mixed audio data, and transmits the mixed audio data to the target device, when the first bluetooth earphone determines the second audio data is received. The first bluetooth earphone transmits the first audio data to the target device when the target bluetooth earphone determines the second audio data isn't received.
  • The first bluetooth earphone determines whether the first audio data is obtained when the second audio data is received. The first bluetooth earphone mixes the first audio data and the second audio data to form mixed audio data, and transmits the mixed audio data to the target device, when the target bluetooth earphone determines the first audio data is obtained. The first bluetooth earphone transmits the second audio data to the target device when the target bluetooth earphone determines the first audio data isn't obtained.
  • The first bluetooth earphone may also receive the first audio data and the second audio data simultaneously. As an embodiment, if the first bluetooth earphone receives the first audio data and the second audio data at the same time, the first audio data and the second audio data can be mixed to form mixed audio data, and transmitting the mixed audio data to the target device.
  • The specific way in which the first audio data and the second audio data are mixed is not limited in the embodiment of the present disclosure. For example, the audio data obtained by mixing the first audio data and the second audio data can be defined as the mixed audio data. The sampling values of the first audio data and the second audio data at the same time are superimposed to obtain sampling values corresponding to that time in the mixed audio data. If there is a sampling value corresponding to a certain time in the first audio data and no sampling value corresponding to the certain time in the second audio data, the sampling value corresponding to the certain time in the mixed audio data is the sampling value corresponding to the certain time in the first audio data corresponding the certain time. If there is a sampling value corresponding to a certain time in the second audio data and no sampling value corresponding to the certain time in the first audio data, the sampling value corresponding to the certain time in the mixed audio data is the sampling value corresponding to the certain time in the second audio data corresponding the certain time. In this embodiment, the mixed audio data is used for transmission to the target device.
  • As an embodiment, if the first audio data and the second audio data are received by the first bluetooth earphone simultaneously, the first audio data and the second audio data can also be respectively transmitted to the target device as independent audio data, and the transmission can be simultaneous.
  • Operation S220: the first bluetooth earphone determines a target device. Wherein the target device connects with the first bluetooth earphone via bluetooth in the connection loop and the target device is on the shorter of the two transmission paths.
  • The first bluetooth earphone determines the target device to be sent before transmitting the received audio data.
  • As an embodiment, the first bluetooth earphone can calculate the number of bluetooth earphones on the two transmission paths respectively, and determine one of the two transmission paths with the smaller bluetooth earphones as the shorter transmission path. For example, if the number of bluetooth earphones on one transmission path of the first bluetooth earphone is 5 and the number of bluetooth earphones on the other transmission path is 6, the transmission path with 5 bluetooth earphones is determined as the shorter transmission path. The bluetooth earphone adjacent to the first bluetooth earphone on the shorter transmission path is determined as the target device.
  • In this embodiment, if the number of bluetooth earphones on the two paths is the same, any one transmission path can be selected for transmitting the audio data; or the transmission path through which the audio data was previously transmitted is selected as the current transmission path for transmitting audio data; or the transmission path with the strongest average signal strength is selected as the transmission path for transmitting audio data.
  • Wherein, in the process of connecting the mobile terminal and the bluetooth earphone, each bluetooth earphone can record the number of bluetooth earphones in the transmission path between the earphone and the mobile terminal. For example, the bluetooth earphone connected to the mobile terminal transmits its own address to another bluetooth earphone when it is connected to the another bluetooth earphone, which receives and saves the address. When the bluetooth earphone is connected to the next bluetooth earphone, it will send its own address and the saved address to the next bluetooth earphone. By analogy, each bluetooth earphone can save the address of each bluetooth earphone on the two transmission paths. According to the number of bluetooth earphone addresses corresponding to the two transmission paths, the number of bluetooth earphones on the two paths can be calculated respectively.
  • As another example, each bluetooth earphone sets a parameter to records the number of bluetooth earphones on the transmission path, and the parameter value can be initialized to zero. The bluetooth earphone connected to the mobile terminal keeps the parameter value at 0. When the bluetooth earphone connected with mobile terminal connects with other bluetooth earphones, the value of the parameter in the bluetooth earphone connected with mobile terminal is sent to the bluetooth earphone connected with it. The bluetooth earphone that receives the parameter value adds 1 to the received parameter to save as its own parameter, and so on. On one transmission path of the two transmission paths, the parameter value of each bluetooth earphone is added 1 on the basis of the parameter value of the adjacent bluetooth earphone, and the adjacent bluetooth earphone is closer to the mobile terminal on the transmission path. Thus, each bluetooth earphone can obtain the number of bluetooth earphones on the two transmission paths through this parameter value.
  • Specifically, the two transmission paths include a first path and a second path, two parameters are stored in the target bluetooth earphone. The two parameters include a first parameter and a second parameter, the first parameter is used to record the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path, the second parameter is used to record the number of bluetooth earphones on the second path. The operation of the first blutooth earphone calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the two transmission paths respectively includes calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path according to the first parameter and calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the second path according to the second parameter.
  • Wherein the first parameter can be initialized to zero, the operation of calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path according to the first parameter includes the following operations. The first bluetooth earphone sends the first parameter stored in the first bluetooth earphone to the next bluetooth earphone on the first path, when the first bluetooth earphone is connected between the mobile terminal and one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, and the first bluetooth earphone is the first bluetooth earphone on the first path. When the target bluetooth earphone is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, the first bluetooth earphone can receive the first parameter from a previous bluetooth earphone on the first path, the first bluetooth earphone updates the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to a new first parameter, wherein the new first parameter equal to the first parameter received from the previous bluetooth earphone plus 1, and the first bluetooth earphone can determine the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone as the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path, after updating the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to the new first parameter.
  • Wherein the second parameter is initialized to zero, the operation of calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the second path according to the second parameter can include the following operations. The first bluetooth earphone sends the second parameter stored in the first bluetooth earphone to the next bluetooth earphone on the second path, when the first bluetooth earphone is connected between the mobile terminal and one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, and the first bluetooth earphone is the first bluetooth earphone on the second path. When the first bluetooth earphone is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, the first bluetooth earphone can receive the second parameter from a previous bluetooth earphone on the second path, the target bluetooth earphone can update the second parameter stored in the first bluetooth earphone to a new second parameter, wherein the new second parameter equal to the second parameter received from the previous bluetooth earphone plus 1, and the target bluetooth earphone can determine the second parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone as the number of bluetooth earphones on second first path, after updating the second parameter stored in the first bluetooth earphone to the new second parameter.
  • For example, in the data transmitting system as shown in FIG. 2, for the bluetooth earphone c, the number of bluetooth earphones can be determined to be 2 in the transmission path of direction 1. During the connection process, the bluetooth earphone a can record the value of the first parameter corresponding to transmission path of direction 1 as 0. The bluetooth earphone a sends the value 0 of the first parameter to the bluetooth earphone b connected to it, then the bluetooth earphone b updates the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to a new first parameter, and the new first parameter equal to the first parameter received from the bluetooth earphone a plus 1, and the new first parameter equal to 1. The bluetooth earphone b transmits the value 1 of the new first parameter to the bluetooth earphone c. The bluetooth earphone c adds 1 to the first parameter received from the bluetooth earphone b, and determine the value of the first parameter stored in the bluetooth earphone c is 2. Therefore, the number of bluetooth earphones on the transmission path of the direction 1 of the bluetooth earphone c can be determined as 2 according to the value of the first parameter. If the bluetooth earphone d records the second parameter value is x, it indicates the number of bluetooth earphones between the bluetooth earphone d and mobile terminal on the transmission path is x, the transmission path is from mobile terminal to the main earphone a, the slave earphone e and until to the slave earphone d. When the bluetooth earphone d is connected to the bluetooth earphone c, the value x of the second parameter is sent to the bluetooth earphone c. The bluetooth earphone c adds 1 to the value x, and the value of the second parameter can be recorded as (x+1) by the bluetooth earphone c. Therefore, the bluetooth earphone c can determine that the number of bluetooth earphones in the transmission path of the bluetooth earphone c in direction 2 is (x+1) according to the value of the second parameter (x+1).
  • As an embodiment, if the first bluetooth earphone is a bluetooth earphone directly connected to the mobile terminal, the first bluetooth earphone can directly send the audio data to the mobile terminal without relaying through other bluetooth earphones. Therefore, the mobile terminal can be determined as the target device. It can be understood that the identity information is exchanged between the interconnected mobile terminal and the bluetooth earphone, and between two interconnected bluetooth earphones, so that each bluetooth earphone can know whether it is connected to the bluetooth earphone or the mobile terminal.
  • As an embodiment, if the first bluetooth earphone is the main earphone, the mobile terminal can be determined as the target device because the main earphone is directly connected to the mobile terminal, and the transmission path is the shorter.
  • As an embodiment, if the data transmitting system is as illustrated in FIG. 2, all the audio data from the slave earphones needs to be sent to the mobile terminal through the main earphone. If the first bluetooth earphone is one of the plurality of slave earphone and the first bluetooth earphone is connected with the main earphone via bluetooth, the audio data is transmitted to the main earphone by the first bluetooth earphone, then the main earphone transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal. The transmission path is the shorter, so the main earphone is determined as the target device. It can be understood that when the main earphone is connected with the first bluetooth earphone, the identity information is exchanged with each other, so that the first bluetooth earphone can recognize the main earphone from the bluetooth earphones connected to it.
  • As an embodiment, if the audio data transmitted by the first bluetooth earphone includes the second audio data, the first bluetooth earphone is on the shorter transmission path from another bluetooth earphone to the mobile terminal, and the shorter transmission path from the first bluetooth earphone to the mobile terminal should also be the shorter transmission path from the another bluetooth earphone to the mobile terminal. The target device on the shorter transmission path should be one of the two devices adjacent to the first bluetooth earphone and is different from the device which transmits the second audio data to the first bluetooth earphone. That is, there are two devices adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone in the connection loop, the first bluetooth earphone can determine one of the two devices as the target device, wherein the second audio data is not transmitted from the target device.
  • For example, as shown in FIG. 2, if the slave earphone c is the first bluetooth earphone and receives the second audio data transmitted from the earphone d. It indicates that the shorter transmission path from the earphone d to the mobile terminal is the transmission path in the direction 1. The shorter transmission path is from the slave earphone d to the mobile terminal through the slave earphone c, the slave earphone b and the main earphone a. In the two transmission paths of the slave earphone c, the transmission path in the direction 1 is shorter than the transmission path from the slave earphone d in the direction 1. Besides, the transmission path from the slave earphone c in the direction 2 is longer than the transmission path from the earphone d in the direction 2. The direction of the shorter transmission path from the slave earphone c is the same as that from the slave earphone d. That is to say, the target device on the shorter transmission path of the slave earphone c is one of the two adjacent devices and different from the earphone d that transmits the second audio data, that is, the target device is the slave earphone b.
  • Operation S230: the first bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the target device.
  • Operation S240: when the target device is the second bluetooth earphone, the second bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to a next target device, until the audio data is transmitted to the mobile terminal, wherein the next target device connects with the second bluetooth earphone via bluetooth on the shorter transmission path.
  • The first bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the determined target device.
  • If the target device is the mobile terminal, the transmission of the audio data in the data transmitting system is completed.
  • If the target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphone, the target device continues to transmit the audio data.
  • Wherein, the earphone receives the audio data from the first bluetooth earphone is defined as the second bluetooth earphone. The second bluetooth earphone then transmits the audio data to the next target device connected via bluetooth on the shorter transmission path, which is adjacent to the second bluetooth earphone on the shorter transmission path.
  • That is, when the second bluetooth earphone receives the audio data, it determines the target device on the shorter transmission path among the two transmission paths. If the target device is a mobile terminal, the transmission of the audio data in the data transmitting system is completed after the audio data is transmitted to the target device. If the target device is the bluetooth earphone, then the audio data is transmitted to the next target device on the shorter transmission path of the bluetooth earphone, the audio data is transmitted in sequence until it is transmitted to the mobile terminal.
  • The data transmitting system shown in FIG. 2 is taken as an example for specific description. When the bluetooth earphone c in FIG. 2 receives the audio data, the bluetooth earphone c determines the transmission path in direction 1 as the shorter transmission path. On the shorter transmission path, the target device of the bluetooth earphone c is the bluetooth earphone b, and the audio data is transmitted to the bluetooth earphone b. The bluetooth earphone b receives the audio data, and determines that its target device is the bluetooth earphone a, and transmits the audio data to the bluetooth earphone a. The bluetooth earphone a is connected to the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal is determined as the target device of the bluetooth earphone a. The bluetooth earphone a transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal to complete the transmission of the audio data.
  • In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the audio data is received by the bluetooth earphone and needs to be transmitted to the mobile terminal. Specifically, for a bluetooth earphone, the audio data can be acquired by its voice acquisition unit, or the audio data is acquired by other bluetooth earphones through a voice acquisition unit and be transmitted to the bluetooth earphone. The audio data can include a first label for instructing the bluetooth earphone to transmit the audio data to the mobile terminal. That is to say, if the bluetooth earphone receives the audio data having the first label, it performs the foregoing process of transmitting the audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • In addition, the mobile terminal can also send audio data to the bluetooth earphone. Specifically, the mobile terminal transmits the audio data to the bluetooth earphone connected with the mobile terminal, and the bluetooth earphone connected with the mobile terminal transmits the audio data to the next bluetooth earphone connected with it. The audio data is sequentially transmitted, so that all the bluetooth earphones can receive the audio data transmitted from the mobile terminal. The audio data transmitted from the mobile terminal to the bluetooth earphone can include a second label. If the bluetooth earphone receives the audio data having the second label, the audio data is transmitted to other bluetooth earphones.
  • That is, the first bluetooth earphone can determine whether the audio data includes a first label or a second label, wherein the first label is used to instruct the bluetooth earphone to send the audio data to the mobile terminal, the second label is used to indicate that the audio data is transmitted from the mobile terminal to the plurality of bluetooth earphones. The first bluetooth earphone can transmit the audio data to the target device when the audio data include the first label. When the audio data includes the second label, the first bluetooth earphone determines whether the target device is the bluetooth earphone or the mobile terminal. The first bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the target device when the target device is the bluetooth earphone, and the first bluetooth earphone ends the transmission of the audio data when the target device is the mobile terminal.
  • In the data transmitting system provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop. The bluetooth earphone may receive audio data transmitted by the mobile terminal from both sides of the two transmission paths. Therefore, if a bluetooth earphone has received audio data with a second label, it can refuse to accept the same audio data with the second label, and the audio data is no longer sent to other bluetooth earphones.
  • In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the mobile terminal can send the audio data received from the bluetooth earphone to other mobile terminals through the network. The mobile terminal can also receive audio data from other mobile terminals through the network and send it to each bluetooth earphone.
  • Optionally, the data transmitting system can further include another mobile terminal been connected with the mobile terminal through the network. The mobile terminal can transmit the audio data received from the first bluetooth earphone to the another mobile terminal.
  • In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the bluetooth earphone receives the audio data which is transmitted to the mobile terminal, and determines the target device that transmits the audio data to the mobile terminal. The target device is adjacent to the bluetooth earphone on the shorter transmission path. The bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the target device. If the target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, the similar transmission process of the bluetooth earphone is performed again, that is, the audio data is transmitted to the adjacent device on its shorter transmission path, until the audio data is transmitted to the mobile terminal. In the data transmitting system, the bluetooth earphone can select the transmission path of the audio data according to the length of the transmission path, so as to reduce the amount of data processing and reduce the transmission time.
  • The embodiments of the present disclosure also provides a data transmission device 300, which is applied to the target bluetooth earphone. The target bluetooth earphone can be any bluetooth earphone in the data transmitting system. Referring to FIG. 5, the device 300 includes an audio receiving module 310 configured to receive audio data by the target bluetooth earphone; a target device determining module 320 configured to determine a target device, wherein the target device is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone in the connection loop and on the shorter of the two transmission paths, and the target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones or the mobile terminal; an audio transmission module 330 configured to transmit the audio data to the target device.
  • Optionally, the target bluetooth earphone includes a voice acquisition unit, such as a microphone, for voice acquisition. The audio receiving module 310 can be configured to acquire sound signals through the voice acquisition unit and converting the sound signals into the first audio data, or can also be configured to receive the second audio data from one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones which is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone. When the first audio data and the second audio data are received at the same time, the audio transmission module 330 can be configured to mix the first audio data and the second audio data to form mixed audio data, and transmit the mixed audio data to the target device.
  • Optionally, the embodiments of the present disclosure may also include a shorter transmission path determining module for calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the two transmission paths respectively, and determining one of the two transmission paths with the smaller number of bluetooth earphones as the shorter transmission path.
  • Optionally, the target device determining module 320 may be used to determine one of the two devices as the target device, wherein the second audio data is not transmitted from the target device.
  • Optionally, when the target bluetooth earphone is connected with the mobile terminal, the target device determining module 320 may be configured to determine the mobile terminal as the target device.
  • Optionally, when the target bluetooth earphone is the main earphone, the target device determining module 320 may be configured to determine the mobile terminal as the target device.
  • Optionally, when the target bluetooth earphone is a slave earphone and connected with the main earphone, the target device determining module 320 may be configured to determine the main earphone as the target device.
  • The embodiment of the present disclosure also provides a data transmitting system. Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the data transmitting system includes a mobile terminal and a plurality of bluetooth earphones. The mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop, each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal.
  • As some embodiments, as shown in FIG. 1, in the connection loop formed by the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones, the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are sequentially connected in head-to-tail manner, and the mobile terminal is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones.
  • In the connection process of the data transmitting system, the mobile phone is connected with the adjacent left and right earphones, and each earphone is connected with another earphone to form a two-way earphone loop.
  • As some embodiments, as shown in FIG. 2, the plurality of bluetooth earphones include a main earphone and a plurality of slave earphones, in the connection loop formed by the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones, the mobile terminal connects with the main earphone via bluetooth, the main earphone and the plurality of slave earphones are sequentially connected in head-to-tail manner, and the main earphone is connected between two slave earphones of the plurality of slave earphones.
  • In the connection process of the data transmitting system of the embodiments, the mobile phone can establish bluetooth connection with the main earphone, such as an hfp connection. The main earphone is connected with the adjacent left and right earphones to form a two-way earphone loop. When the main earphone receives the audio data transmitted by other earphones, the audio data can be transmitted to the mobile terminal through the hfp sco link.
  • In the data transmitting system, the pairing passwords of each bluetooth earphone and the mobile terminal can be the same and equal to the pairing password between the bluetooth earphones. The pairing passwords between each slave earphone, the main earphone and the mobile terminal are the same. When the pairing password input by the mobile terminal is correct, the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones can be connected to form the connection loop.
  • It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the above embodiments may be referred to each other for convenience and brevity of the description. For the specific working process of the device and the system as described above, references may be made to the corresponding process in the foregoing method embodiments, and details are not repeated here. The various embodiments and the implementations in the foregoing method embodiments can be executed by corresponding modules or units, which are no longer described in the embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • In several embodiments provided in this disclosure, the coupling between modules can be electrical, mechanical or other forms of coupling.
  • In addition, each functional module in each embodiment of the present disclosure can be integrated into one processing module, or each module can exist physically separately, or two or more modules can be integrated into one module. The above integrated modules can be implemented either in the form of hardware or in the form of software functional modules.
  • Another embodiments of the disclosure also provides a mobile terminal 400. The mobile terminal 400 can be a mobile terminal capable of running an application, such as a smart phone, a tablet computer, or a computer. As shown in FIG. 6, the mobile terminal 400 includes one or more processors 410 (only one is shown in the figure), a memory 420, a bluetooth module 430 and one or more computer programs. The one or more computer programs are stored in the memory 420 and configured to be executed by the one or more processors 410. The one or more computer programs are configured to execute the method of one or more embodiments above.
  • Each processor 410 can include one or more processing cores. Each processor 410 connects various parts of the entire mobile terminal 400 using various interfaces and lines. It performs various functions and processes data of the mobile terminal 400 by running or executing instructions, programs, code sets or instruction sets stored in memory 420 and calling data stored in memory 420. Optionally, the processor 410 can be implemented in at least one hardware form such as digital signal processing (DSP), a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), and a programmable logic array (PLA). The processor 410 can integrate one or more combinations of a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), a modem, and the like. The CPU mainly deals with the operating system, user interface and disclosures; the GPU is responsible for rendering and drawing of the display content; the modem is used to process wireless communication. It can be understood that the above modem may not be integrated into the processor 410 and can be implemented separately by a communication chip.
  • The memory 420 can include a random access memory (RAM), or a read-only memory. The memory 420 can be used to store instructions, programs, code, code sets or instructions sets. The memory 420 can include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area can store instructions for implementing an operating system, instructions for implementing at least one function, instructions for implementing the various method embodiments described above, and the like. The storage data area can also store the data (such as a phone book, audio and video data, and chat record data) created by the mobile terminal 400 in use.
  • The bluetooth module 430 may refer to a set of basic circuit of chips integrated bluetooth function for wireless network communication. The bluetooth module 430 is electrically connected to the processor, and the mobile terminal can be connected to the bluetooth earphone through the bluetooth module 430. Wherein, the mobile terminal can include a plurality of bluetooth modules, and each bluetooth modules is used to connect different bluetooth earphones.
  • As shown in FIG. 7, the embodiments of the present disclosure further provides a bluetooth earphone 500. The bluetooth earphone includes a voice acquisition unit 510, a bluetooth module 520 and a processing unit 530. The voice acquisition unit 510 and the bluetooth module 520 are connected to the processing unit 530, respectively.
  • The bluetooth module 520 is used to connect the bluetooth earphone with the mobile terminal and other bluetooth earphones. Wherein, the bluetooth earphone can include plurality of bluetooth modules, and different bluetooth modules are used to connect different devices. For example, the bluetooth earphone includes a first bluetooth module, a second bluetooth module, and a third bluetooth module. When the bluetooth earphone is used as the main earphone, the first bluetooth module is used to connect with the mobile terminal, and the second bluetooth module is used to connect with a bluetooth earphone, and the third bluetooth module is used to connect with another bluetooth earphone.
  • The voice acquisition unit 510 is used to collect voice information and send it to the processing unit.
  • The processing unit 530 is used to perform processing operations, such as sampling, encoding, filtering and the like, on the voice information to obtain the audio data. The processing unit is also used to receive the audio data transmitted by other bluetooth earphones and mix it with the audio data obtained by the voice acquisition unit.
  • The processing unit 530 is further configured to perform the method operations corresponding to the bluetooth earphone described in the above method embodiments.
  • Referring to FIG. 8, a schematic view of a computer readable storage medium provided by in the embodiment of the present disclosure is illustrated. Program code is stored in the computer readable storage medium 600, and the program code can be executable by a processor to execute the method of the embodiments described above.
  • The computer readable storage medium 600 can be an electronic memory such as a flash memory, an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory), an EPROM, a hard disk, or a ROM. Alternatively, the computer readable storage medium 600 may be a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The computer readable storage medium 600 has a storage space for program code 610 that performs any of the method operations described above. The program code can be read from or written to one or more computer program products. Program code 610 can be compressed, for example, in a suitable form.
  • It should be noted that the above embodiments are only used to explain the technical solutions of the present disclosure, not to limit it. Although the present disclosure is described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that they can still modify the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments, or the equivalently replace some of the technical features. These modifications and substitutions do not drive the essence of the corresponding technical solutions away from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure.

Claims (15)

  1. A data transmitting method, characterized by being applied to a target bluetooth earphone, the target bluetooth earphone applied to a data transmitting system, the data transmitting system comprising a mobile terminal (400) and a plurality of earphones, the mobile terminal (400) and the plurality of bluetooth earphones connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop, in which each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal (400), the target bluetooth earphone being one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, the method comprising:
    the target bluetooth earphone receiving audio data;
    the target bluetooth earphone determining a target device, wherein the target device is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone in the connection loop and on the shorter of the two transmission paths, and the target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones or the mobile terminal (400); and
    the target bluetooth earphone transmitting the audio data to the target device.
  2. The method of claim 1, wherein the target bluetooth earphone comprises a voice acquisition unit, the operation of the target bluetooth earphone receiving audio data comprises:
    the target bluetooth earphone acquiring sound signals through the voice acquisition unit and converting the sound signals into first audio data; and
    the target bluetooth earphone receiving second audio data from one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones which is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone;
    wherein the operation of the target bluetooth earphone transmitting the audio data to the target device comprises:
    the target bluetooth earphone mixing the first audio data and the second audio data to form mixed audio data, and transmitting the mixed audio data to the target device.
  3. The method of claim 2, wherein there are two devices adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone in the connection loop, and the operation of the target bluetooth earphone determining a target device comprises:
    determining one of the two devices as the target device, wherein the second audio data is not transmitted from the target device.
  4. The method of claim 1 or 2, the operation of the target bluetooth earphone determining a target device comprising:
    determining the mobile terminal (400) as the target device when the target bluetooth earphone is connected with the mobile terminal (400).
  5. The method of any onf of claims 1-4, prior to the operation of the target bluetooth earphone determining a target device, the method further comprising:
    calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the two transmission paths respectively;
    determining one of the two transmission paths with the smaller number of bluetooth earphones as the shorter transmission path.
  6. The method of claim 5, wherein the two transmission paths comprise a first path and a second path, two parameters are stored in the target bluetooth earphone, the two parameters comprise a first parameter and a second parameter, the first parameter is used to record the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path, the second parameter is used to record the number of bluetooth earphones on the second path, and the operation of calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the two transmission paths respectively comprises calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path according to the first parameter and calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the second path according to the second parameter.
  7. The method of claim 6, wherein the first parameter is initialized to zero, the operation of calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path according to the first parameter comprises:
    the target bluetooth earphone sending the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to the next bluetooth earphone on the first path, when the target bluetooth earphone is connected between the mobile terminal (400) and one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, and the target bluetooth earphone is the first bluetooth earphone on the first path;
    the target bluetooth earphone receiving the first parameter from a previous bluetooth earphone on the first path, when the target bluetooth earphone is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones,
    the target bluetooth earphone updating the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to a new first parameter, wherein the new first parameter equal to the first parameter received from the previous bluetooth earphone plus 1, and
    the target bluetooth earphone determining the first parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone as the number of bluetooth earphones on the first path.
  8. The method of claim 6, wherein the second parameter is initialized to zero, the operation of calculating the number of bluetooth earphones on the second path according to the second parameter comprises:
    the target bluetooth earphone sending the second parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to the next bluetooth earphone on the second path, when the target bluetooth earphone is connected between the mobile terminal (400) and one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones, and the target bluetooth earphone is the first bluetooth earphone on the second path;
    the target bluetooth earphone receiving the second parameter from a previous bluetooth earphone on the second path, when the target bluetooth earphone is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones,
    the target bluetooth earphone updating the second parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone to a new second parameter, wherein the new second parameter equal to the second parameter received from the previous bluetooth earphone plus 1, and
    the target bluetooth earphone determining the second parameter stored in the target bluetooth earphone as the number of bluetooth earphones on second first path.
  9. The method of any one of claims 1-8, wherein the mobile terminal (400) and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are sequentially connected in head-to-tail manner, and the mobile terminal (400) is connected between two bluetooth earphones of the plurality of bluetooth earphones.
  10. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of bluetooth earphones comprise a main earphone and a plurality of slave earphones, the mobile terminal (400) connects with the main earphone via bluetooth, the main earphone and the plurality of slave earphones are sequentially connected in head-to-tail manner, and the main earphone is connected between two slave earphones of the plurality of slave earphones;
    wherein the operation of the target bluetooth earphone determining a target device, comprises:
    determining the mobile terminal (400) as the target device when the target bluetooth earphone is the main earphone.
  11. The method of claim 10, the operation of the target bluetooth earphone determining a target device, comprising:
    determining the main earphone as the target device when the target bluetooth earphone is a slave earphone and connected with the main earphone.
  12. The method of claim 1, prior to the operation of the target bluetooth earphone transmitting the audio data to the target device, the method further comprising:
    determining whether the audio data comprises a first label or a second label, wherein the first label is used to instruct the bluetooth earphone to send the audio data to the mobile terminal (400), the second label is used to indicate that the audio data is transmitted from the mobile terminal (400) to the plurality of bluetooth earphones;
    performing the operation of the target bluetooth earphone transmitting the audio data to the target device when the audio data comprises the first label;
    determining whether the target device is the bluetooth earphone or the mobile terminal (400), when the audio data comprises the second label;
    performing the operation of the target bluetooth earphone transmitting the audio data to the target device when the target device is the bluetooth earphone,
    ending the transmission of the audio data when the target device is the mobile terminal (400).
  13. A data transmitting method, characterized by being applied to a data transmitting system, the data transmitting system comprising a mobile terminal (400) and a plurality of bluetooth earphones, the mobile terminal (400) and the plurality of bluetooth earphones connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop, each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones corresponding to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal (400), the plurality of bluetooth earphones comprising a first bluetooth earphone and a second bluetooth earphone, the method comprising:
    the first bluetooth earphone receiving audio data;
    the first bluetooth earphone determining a target device, wherein the target device connects with the first bluetooth earphone via bluetooth in the connection loop and the target device is on the shorter of the two transmission paths;
    the first bluetooth earphone transmitting the audio data to the target device;
    when the target device is the second bluetooth earphone, the second bluetooth earphone transmitting the audio data to a next target device, until the audio data is transmitted to the mobile terminal (400), wherein the next target device connects with the second bluetooth earphone via bluetooth on the shorter transmission path.
  14. The method of claim 13, wherein the data transmitting system further comprises another mobile terminal (400) been connected with the mobile terminal (400) through network, the method further comprises:
    the mobile terminal (400) transmitting the audio data received from the first bluetooth earphone to the another mobile terminal (400).
  15. A data transmitting system, characterized in that the data transmitting system comprises a mobile terminal (400) and a plurality of bluetooth earphones (500), the mobile terminal (400) and the plurality of bluetooth earphones (500) are connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop, each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones (500) corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal (400), each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones (500) is configured to perform the method of any one of claims 1-14 as a target bluetooth earphone (500).
EP19200426.5A 2018-09-30 2019-09-30 Data transmitting method and system Active EP3629562B1 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
CN201811161282.8A CN109246671B (en) 2018-09-30 2018-09-30 Data transmission method, device and system

Publications (2)

Publication Number Publication Date
EP3629562A1 true EP3629562A1 (en) 2020-04-01
EP3629562B1 EP3629562B1 (en) 2021-06-30

Family

ID=65054921

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
EP19200426.5A Active EP3629562B1 (en) 2018-09-30 2019-09-30 Data transmitting method and system

Country Status (4)

Country Link
US (1) US10728647B2 (en)
EP (1) EP3629562B1 (en)
CN (1) CN109246671B (en)
WO (1) WO2020063761A1 (en)

Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP3820128A1 (en) * 2019-11-06 2021-05-12 Telink Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co., LTD. Method of allocating time slots for wireless headset, and wireless headset using the same
CN113242552A (en) * 2021-06-21 2021-08-10 Oppo广东移动通信有限公司 Multi-audio-frequency equipment connection method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium
CN113472764A (en) * 2021-06-24 2021-10-01 深圳市亚昱科技有限公司 Electronic device and audio transmission method

Families Citing this family (16)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN109246671B (en) 2018-09-30 2020-12-08 Oppo广东移动通信有限公司 Data transmission method, device and system
CN110121163A (en) * 2019-04-30 2019-08-13 努比亚技术有限公司 Registration handling method, communication equipment and storage medium
CN110225498A (en) * 2019-04-30 2019-09-10 努比亚技术有限公司 Communication control method, communication equipment and storage medium
CN110213749A (en) * 2019-04-30 2019-09-06 努比亚技术有限公司 Communication processing method, communication equipment and storage medium
CN110225499A (en) * 2019-04-30 2019-09-10 努比亚技术有限公司 Communication connecting method, communication equipment and storage medium
CN110996305B (en) * 2019-11-12 2024-01-05 宇龙计算机通信科技(深圳)有限公司 Method and device for connecting Bluetooth equipment, electronic equipment and medium
CN111629369B (en) * 2020-05-27 2022-11-04 歌尔科技有限公司 Bluetooth headset, pairing connection method and device thereof, and TWS headset
CN112437371B (en) * 2020-08-11 2023-02-21 珠海市杰理科技股份有限公司 BLE link switching method, equipment, earphone pair, chip and medium
TWI741771B (en) * 2020-09-01 2021-10-01 悅聲志業股份有限公司 Headphone charging box having wireless message sharing function and bluetooth headphone thereof
CN112822591A (en) * 2020-12-31 2021-05-18 南京紫牛软件科技有限公司 Call data transmission method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium
CN112866970B (en) * 2021-03-16 2023-03-24 芯原微电子(成都)有限公司 Communication connection method and device, electronic equipment and wireless transmission system
CN113223508B (en) * 2021-03-29 2023-08-04 深圳市芯中芯科技有限公司 Management method of dual-mode TWS Bluetooth headset
US20230081845A1 (en) * 2021-09-13 2023-03-16 Apple Inc. Zero coder compression
CN113573202A (en) * 2021-09-23 2021-10-29 深圳市外星人创新电子有限公司 Data transmission control method and system of Bluetooth headset
CN114745637A (en) * 2022-04-14 2022-07-12 刘道正 Sound effect realization method of wireless audio equipment
CN115175154A (en) * 2022-06-28 2022-10-11 哲库科技(上海)有限公司 Method, device, equipment and system for transmitting Bluetooth multimedia packet

Citations (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2436188A (en) * 2006-03-16 2007-09-19 Ezurio Ltd Short range radio device
US9820323B1 (en) * 2016-11-22 2017-11-14 Bose Corporation Wireless audio tethering system
US20180035207A1 (en) * 2016-07-27 2018-02-01 Chung-Yeh Hsu Monitoring and hearing aid headphone intercom system

Family Cites Families (15)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US6084950A (en) * 1999-02-05 2000-07-04 Davox Corporation Audio communications device adapter
US8351339B2 (en) * 2002-04-25 2013-01-08 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Method for bluetooth on-demand routing and network formation, and communication method in bluetooth group ad hoc network
CN101577954B (en) * 2009-04-30 2010-12-29 南京正保通信网络技术有限公司 Wireless multi-hop ad hoc network communication method
US20120155463A1 (en) * 2010-12-17 2012-06-21 Cisco Technology Inc. Increased Communication Opportunities with Low-Contact Nodes in a Computer Network
US8787379B2 (en) * 2011-02-02 2014-07-22 Futurewei Technologies, Inc. Destination-based virtual channel assignment in on-chip ring networks
US9504076B2 (en) * 2012-12-21 2016-11-22 Sonova Ag Pairing method for establishing a wireless audio network
CN103391118A (en) * 2013-07-23 2013-11-13 广东欧珀移动通信有限公司 Bluetooth headset and audio sharing method by virtue of Bluetooth headsets
CN103686516A (en) * 2013-12-11 2014-03-26 乐视致新电子科技(天津)有限公司 Bluetooth headset capable of sharing audios and control method thereof
CN105323170A (en) * 2014-06-24 2016-02-10 中兴通讯股份有限公司 Path selecting method and apparatus of ring topology stacking system, and master apparatus of ring topology stacking system
CN105208511A (en) 2015-08-28 2015-12-30 深圳市冠旭电子有限公司 Intelligent Bluetooth earphone-based music sharing method, system and intelligent Bluetooth earphone
CN107809409A (en) * 2016-09-08 2018-03-16 北京信威通信技术股份有限公司 A kind of method and device of the transmission of speech data, reception and interaction
WO2018172814A1 (en) * 2017-03-21 2018-09-27 Saronikos Trading And Services, Unipessoal Lda Device, system, and method for delivering and relaying an audio signal
US10367540B1 (en) * 2018-02-20 2019-07-30 Cypress Semiconductor Corporation System and methods for low power consumption by a wireless sensor device
CN109347581B (en) * 2018-09-30 2020-11-27 Oppo广东移动通信有限公司 Bluetooth headset connection method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium
CN109246671B (en) * 2018-09-30 2020-12-08 Oppo广东移动通信有限公司 Data transmission method, device and system

Patent Citations (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2436188A (en) * 2006-03-16 2007-09-19 Ezurio Ltd Short range radio device
US20180035207A1 (en) * 2016-07-27 2018-02-01 Chung-Yeh Hsu Monitoring and hearing aid headphone intercom system
US9820323B1 (en) * 2016-11-22 2017-11-14 Bose Corporation Wireless audio tethering system

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP3820128A1 (en) * 2019-11-06 2021-05-12 Telink Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co., LTD. Method of allocating time slots for wireless headset, and wireless headset using the same
CN113242552A (en) * 2021-06-21 2021-08-10 Oppo广东移动通信有限公司 Multi-audio-frequency equipment connection method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium
CN113472764A (en) * 2021-06-24 2021-10-01 深圳市亚昱科技有限公司 Electronic device and audio transmission method
CN113472764B (en) * 2021-06-24 2024-03-08 深圳市亚昱科技有限公司 Electronic device and audio transmission method

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
EP3629562B1 (en) 2021-06-30
US10728647B2 (en) 2020-07-28
CN109246671B (en) 2020-12-08
CN109246671A (en) 2019-01-18
WO2020063761A1 (en) 2020-04-02
US20200107108A1 (en) 2020-04-02

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
US10728647B2 (en) Data transmitting method and system
US11102581B2 (en) Bluetooth earphone connecting method, electronic device and storage medium
CN109246672B (en) Data transmission method, device and system and Bluetooth headset
CN109445740B (en) Audio playing method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium
CN109257500B (en) Audio playing method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium
CN102981613B (en) terminal and terminal control method
CN109445741B (en) Data transmission method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium
CN109547897B (en) Wireless earphone connection method, device and system and wireless earphone box
CN109450851B (en) Device connection method, electronic device, and computer-readable medium
CN110830970B (en) Audio transmission method, device, equipment and storage medium between Bluetooth equipment
US20220322059A1 (en) Bluetooth data transmission method and apparatus, terminal and storage medium
CN113766477A (en) Device connection method, device, electronic device and computer readable medium
CN110602683B (en) Bluetooth control method, device, mobile terminal and storage medium
WO2021129821A1 (en) Data transmission method and apparatus, storage medium, and terminal device
CN109298846B (en) Audio transmission method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium
CN108337715B (en) Wireless network connection method, device, terminal equipment and storage medium
EP3843495A1 (en) Communication method and apparatus, and device
CN113746982B (en) Audio playing control method and device, electronic equipment and readable storage medium
WO2023246045A1 (en) Device connection method and apparatus, audio playing device and apparatus, and storage medium
CN113596970B (en) Talkback terminal power control method and system, talkback terminal and storage medium
CN113014998B (en) Audio output method, device, television and computer readable storage medium
WO2023093328A1 (en) Bluetooth back-connection method and apparatus, information storage method and apparatus, and terminal device
CN114466343A (en) Device connection method, device, computer storage medium and electronic device
CN117376847A (en) Method and device for sending equipment information, electronic equipment and storage medium
CN114885314A (en) Virtual call method, device, terminal and storage medium based on Bluetooth equipment

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
PUAI Public reference made under article 153(3) epc to a published international application that has entered the european phase

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009012

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: THE APPLICATION HAS BEEN PUBLISHED

AK Designated contracting states

Kind code of ref document: A1

Designated state(s): AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

AX Request for extension of the european patent

Extension state: BA ME

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: REQUEST FOR EXAMINATION WAS MADE

17P Request for examination filed

Effective date: 20201001

RBV Designated contracting states (corrected)

Designated state(s): AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

GRAP Despatch of communication of intention to grant a patent

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: EPIDOSNIGR1

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: GRANT OF PATENT IS INTENDED

INTG Intention to grant announced

Effective date: 20210120

GRAJ Information related to disapproval of communication of intention to grant by the applicant or resumption of examination proceedings by the epo deleted

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: EPIDOSDIGR1

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: REQUEST FOR EXAMINATION WAS MADE

INTC Intention to grant announced (deleted)
GRAP Despatch of communication of intention to grant a patent

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: EPIDOSNIGR1

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: GRANT OF PATENT IS INTENDED

GRAS Grant fee paid

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: EPIDOSNIGR3

INTG Intention to grant announced

Effective date: 20210429

GRAA (expected) grant

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009210

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: THE PATENT HAS BEEN GRANTED

AK Designated contracting states

Kind code of ref document: B1

Designated state(s): AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: CH

Ref legal event code: EP

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: AT

Ref legal event code: REF

Ref document number: 1407459

Country of ref document: AT

Kind code of ref document: T

Effective date: 20210715

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: DE

Ref legal event code: R096

Ref document number: 602019005734

Country of ref document: DE

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: IE

Ref legal event code: FG4D

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: LT

Ref legal event code: MG9D

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: HR

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

Ref country code: FI

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

Ref country code: BG

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210930

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: NL

Ref legal event code: MP

Effective date: 20210630

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: AT

Ref legal event code: MK05

Ref document number: 1407459

Country of ref document: AT

Kind code of ref document: T

Effective date: 20210630

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: NO

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210930

Ref country code: LV

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

Ref country code: RS

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

Ref country code: SE

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

Ref country code: GR

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211001

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: SK

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

Ref country code: EE

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

Ref country code: ES

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

Ref country code: PT

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20211102

Ref country code: RO

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

Ref country code: NL

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

Ref country code: SM

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

Ref country code: CZ

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

Ref country code: AT

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: PL

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: DE

Ref legal event code: R097

Ref document number: 602019005734

Country of ref document: DE

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: DK

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

PLBE No opposition filed within time limit

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009261

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: NO OPPOSITION FILED WITHIN TIME LIMIT

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: BE

Ref legal event code: MM

Effective date: 20210930

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: MC

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

Ref country code: AL

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

26N No opposition filed

Effective date: 20220331

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: LU

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20210930

Ref country code: IT

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

Ref country code: IE

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20210930

Ref country code: BE

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20210930

PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: FR

Payment date: 20221223

Year of fee payment: 5

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: LT

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: CH

Ref legal event code: PL

P01 Opt-out of the competence of the unified patent court (upc) registered

Effective date: 20230412

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: CY

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT

Effective date: 20210630

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: LI

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20220930

Ref country code: HU

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT; INVALID AB INITIO

Effective date: 20190930

Ref country code: CH

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20220930

PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: DE

Payment date: 20221222

Year of fee payment: 5